Laverne Cox
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And I understood it being a big problem for me, but then even talking to my brother about it and him just sort of watching all of that happen, there was sort of a horror for him.
I've tried not to speak for him in this book, but I think he won't mind me saying this because he's told me watching all of this policing of my gender expression and this attention that I was getting that wasn't,
positive or affirming, like the message that was sent to him is that like, I can't be anything like that.
I have to like suppress the thing, anything that might evoke that kind of attention that Laverne is getting.
It's healthier now than it's ever been with my brother.
But I think the dynamic, we were not a touchy-feely family.
So, like, my brother and I, so we didn't do that.
But what we did, we bonded most around music, art.
There were periods when I would be in dance class and he would come and watch and critique and he would give me his notes.
And, you know, now it's like we talk a lot of politics, but then we also talk a lot of art.
Technically, it was mine, I guess, when it was determined that I wasn't butch enough to play my character pre-transition.
And I think what's interesting about that now is there, I think, Jodi, I think the writers.