Transgender actress Laverne Cox is upset over deadnaming and gender assignment of dead transgenders based on their birth names!

Published on August 16, 2018 | Published By: shahid | In controversy , Death , Lifestyle

Laverne Cox, the openly transgender actress, has tweeted about how she wants to be named and gendered after her death.

Let us find out all about it here!

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Laverne Cox and the cause of her anger and upset

Laverne Cox learned over time that in death reports of transgender people who die in homicide cases, their name and gender are put as the birth name and gender rather than what the victims have taken by choice in their lifetime.

This discovery has greatly upset Cox. Hence she decided to post on her social media on this subject and let the world know that she wanted her name and gender to be put in the records after her death.

In addition, Laverne wrote on her Instagram:

“Many years ago, when I was contemplating suicide, I was planning to have a note in my pocket at the time of my death and several other notes in my home which would state my name, preferred gender pronouns and that I should be referred to as a woman in my death. My note would be clear that I should be referred to as Laverne Cox only, not any other name.”

She continued:

“Being misgendered and deadnamed in my death felt like it would be the ultimate insult to the psychological and emotional injuries I was experiencing daily as a black trans woman in New York City, the injuries that made me want to take my own life.”

Laverne further expressed her anger:

“I am angered, saddened and enraged that the police in Jacksonville, Florida, and other jurisdictions don’t have policies in place to respect the gender identities of trans folks when they have been MURDERED. This misgendering and deadnaming also impedes the investigations into these murders. Injustice on top of injustice! (sic)”

Laverne considers misgendering an act of violence. She concluded her tweet with these words:

“I have been saying for years that misgendering a trans person is an act of violence. When I say that, I am referring to cultural and structural violence. The police misgendering and deadnaming trans murder victims as a matter of policy feels like a really good example of that cultural and structural violence.”

Laverne Cox thanks ProPublica

Laverne was all praises for the ProPublica which had published a report on this issue. She thanked them and wrote:

“Thank you ProPublica for this in depth report on this issue. Please read and share and join with local trans organizations demanding that police do better on this issue and many others. (sic)”

ProPublica’s recent publication

ProPublica had published an article on this problem. Likewise, they had talked about the killing of three Black transgender women in Jacksonville, Florida.

It was thought that a serial killer is at large but besides the fear, there was also the anger at the way the cases were handled including the deadnaming and assigning of genders to the transgenders who died.

The article writer found out that across the USA there were 65 different law enforcement authorities who had to investigate the deaths of transgenders since 1 January 2015.

It was found that in the last 3.5 years, 85 transgender deaths have taken place and out of this in 74 cases the victims were named and gendered according to their name and gender respectively which they had already abandoned in their lives.

Short Bio on Laverne Cox

Laverne Cox is an American Actress, reality television star, and television producer. She is also an LGBT advocate. Furthermore, she became known for her portrayal of Sophia Burset on the Netflix television series Orange Is the New Black, for which she became the first openly transgender person to have a wax figure of herself at Madame Tussauds. In 2017, she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regular on broadcast TV as Cameron Wirth in Doubt on CBS. More Bio…

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