Laverne Cox

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736 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 27 Jun

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Fresh Air · Best Of: Laverne Cox /Comic Ali Siddiq · 27 Jun 2026 podcast

I understand now is what some people would refer to as conversion therapy.

I guess there's different kinds.

But at the time...

After three sessions with a therapist, the solution or the thing that they suggested what we do was to inject me with testosterone.

And the idea was that that was supposed to make me more masculine and I would not, that there was a hormone issue.

This would have been 1980, yeah, 1980, 81.

I was eight, nine years old.

Eight, nine years old.

Hadn't even started going through puberty yet.

So they were...

suggesting injecting an eight, nine-year-old with testosterone, which sounds insane to me.

My mother, thank God, said no to that.

And so it was, I just felt relief that that didn't happen to me.

I was, so there was a very, like, in the early 90s, there was kind of, there was the downtown kids, there were the uptown kids.

Like, I was a downtown girl.

I was East Village, really East Village, because the gender nonconforming thing, the androgynous thing that I was doing when I moved to New York in 1993 fit better in the East Village.

By the time I made it to New York, I was wearing dresses, lots of vintage things.

I had a black lame dress.

vintage dress that I would wear.

And then I would incorporate dancewear so I could go out and dance and really do my thing.

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