Laverne Cox

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Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky · Laverne Cox · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

She takes me to the fifth grade teacher and she's like, show her what you were doing with that thing.

I was like, maybe I didn't commit.

Let me really, you know.

And that was the inciting incident that led to the call to my mother that you, from Ms.

Ridgeway, that said, you need to get your son in therapy right away or he'll end up in New Orleans wearing a dress.

And that's the therapy ended.

is what we would understand as conversion therapy now.

There was only three sessions.

I feel like I should hold some of this back for the book.

Read about what happens next in the book.

But what happened after that was... Because before that, I was...

there was a freedom that I had.

I always danced everywhere from the age of five till third grade.

I begged my mother to put me into dance classes.

I was clear that I would become a professional dancer, be on TV, and then I would transition to acting.

This is all at five, six years old.

And I got to start studying dance in third grade.

And I was kind of free and I was just myself.

But after that, it was like, oh, it's not okay for you to do what's very, it feels very natural to you.

Like, just feel like scarlet hair.

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