Orange is the New Black star Laverne Cox is the cover woman for the newest issue of Time magazine, a feature on "The Transgender Tipping Point: America's next civil rights frontier."
The article reads in part: "The transgender revolution still has a long way to go. Trans people are significantly more likely to be impoverished, unemployed and suicidal than other Americans. They represent a sliver of the populationan estimated 0.5%which can make it harder for them to gain acceptance. In a recent survey conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute, 65% of Americans said they have a close friend or family member who is homosexual, while 9% said they have one who is transgender. And as the trans movement has gained momentum, opponents have been drawn in to fight, many of them social conservatives who cut their teeth and fattened their mailing lists opposing same-sex marriage. But perhaps the biggest obstacle is that trans people live in a world largely built on a fixed and binary definition of gender. In many places, they are unwelcome in the men's bathroom and the women's. The effect is a constant reminder that they don't belong."
The cover feature came a few weeks after people were upset when Cox was not included in the Time 100 list, even though readers had selected her among their top choices.
Time accompanied the Laverne Cox story with a list of 21 transgender people "who influenced American culture":
Athlete Kye Allums
Model Carmen Carrera
Actress Candis Cayne
Scientist and engineer Lynn Conway
Actress Laverne Cox
Actress Caroline Cossey
Athlete Fallon Fox
Pioneer Christine Jorgensen
Model Isis King
Athlete Lana Lawless
Army private Chelsea Manning
Writer Janet Mock
Sports writer Christine Daniels
Athlete Renee Richards
Activist Sylvia Rivera
Amanda Simpson, Obama appointee
Model Lea T
Miss Universe candidate Jenna Talackova
Brandon Teena, murdered trans man
Musician Billy Tipton
Filmmaker Lana Wachowski
See time.com/130734/transgender-celebrities-actors-athletes-in-america/ .
Also see article link here: time.com/135480/transgender-tipping-point/ ( Time subscribers can read the entire piece ).