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Welcome to the Laverne Cox Show, a production of Shondaland audio in partnership with IHeart Radio.

So it's like the supremacy or the misogyny or a transphobia at the top.

It's put into policies and laws, and then it just trickles down into this real sense of

permission to assault and attack, whether blatant violence,

that creates physical harm or death, or just more, you know, the microaggressions that are so

commonplace and people don't even think much about them.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Laverne Cox Show.

I'm Laverne Cox.

So I definitely want to give a trigger warning before today's episode because it's triggering as fuck to talk about this.

The trauma is super real for me as a survivor of multiple forms of direct and indirect violence, both in my childhood and as an adult.

Year after years, trans folks become more visible in the media.

The instances of violence against us are not decreasing.

In fact, these instances are increasing, particularly fatal violence.

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