Cox says she knows of another transgender woman who won an Emmy years ago, but was not out.

Laverne Cox is an actress on the Netflix television series Orange Is The New Black.

She was recently hailed by Time Magazine as “The first transgender person nominated for an Emmy award.”

Time Magazine is wrong.

Cox is simply the first openly transgendered person to have been recognized by the Emmys.

From the LATimes: Cox woke up to discover she’d become the first openly transgender woman nominated for an Emmy award.

Cox herself makes the distinction “openly trans,” as she says she knows of another transgender woman who won an Emmy years ago, but was not out.

Angela Morley
Born Walter Stott

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