Actress says men who date trans women are more stigmatised

The Orange is the New Black actress Laverne Cox, has revealed “gender policing” hurts not just transgenders, but the people who date them too.

Laverne said: “Most men who are attracted to and date transgender women are probably stigmatized more than trans women are.

“I think a man who is dating trans women, who is a celebrity, or famous or is an athlete or something, needs to come forward or a musician and needs to say, ‘I love transgender women and they deserve to be loved and I’m going to declare that publicly", she added.

“As I date a lot of straight-identified men, I’ve seen them so deeply internalize these ideas very rigidly about what it means to be a man to be a straight man.”

Laverne is the first transgender to have her own waxwork in  Madame Tussards. She said: “That’s just wild. It’s such a weird thing to think about. It’s like, ‘Really? Me?’ What’s going on?’”