Laverne Cox reflects on a lifetime of navigating identity, trauma, and resilience as a Black transgender woman, sharing how her childhood in Mobile, Alabama shaped her journey toward self-acceptance and artistic expression, culminating in her new memoir Transcendent—a raw, unflinching a
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