{"id":558398,"date":"2021-06-09T15:51:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T19:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=558398"},"modified":"2021-06-09T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T19:52:00","slug":"laverne-cox-anti-trans-laws-dehumanize-children-conservatives-are-weaponizing-cultural-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/laverne-cox-anti-trans-laws-dehumanize-children-conservatives-are-weaponizing-cultural-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Laverne Cox: Anti-Trans Laws \u2018Dehumanize\u2019 Children, Conservatives Are \u2018Weaponizing Cultural Wars\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flaverne-cox-anti-trans-laws-dehumanize-children-conservatives-are-weaponizing-cultural-wars%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=558398&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Cox.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Transgender actor Laverne Cox blamed conservatives for \u201cweaponizing the culture wars\u201d and \u201cdehumanizing\u201d transgender children with a push to protect spaces reserved for biological females.<\/p>\n<p>In a lengthy interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2021\/tv\/news\/laverne-cox-anti-trans-bills-pride-1234985405\/\">Variety<\/a> to kick-start the month of June \u2014 \u201cPride Month\u201d \u2014 Laverne Cox lamented the wave of \u201canti-trans bills\u201d sweeping across the country \u2013 laws that would prevent biological males from competing in women\u2019s sports and from using the bathroom facilities of their choice, in line with their preferred \u2014 rather than their biological \u2014 gender.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat they\u2019re trying to do is to dehumanize these children, which is so heartbreaking,\u201d Cox said. \u201cIt\u2019s really heartbreaking when you see the way they\u2019re talking, the fervor with which they\u2019re going after these children. In the face of that, we have to insist on the humanity of everyone. Insist on the humanity of trans people, and particularly the humanity of trans children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what feels different is how well how coordinated it all is,\u201d added Cox. \u201cIt\u2019s no accident that 35 states have introduced over 100 bills targeting trans kids and gender-affirming health care for trans youth. They\u2019ve been so organized. A few years ago, they were all about bathrooms, right? There was a slew of bills as legislators all over the country attacked trans people in the bathroom. We were able to fight back against that with the lived experience and humanity of trans people. And with all the fearmongering they were doing about bathrooms, people realized that it wasn\u2019t about bathrooms. It was about trying to make trans people not exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Cox, the GOP is pushing these so-called \u201canti-trans bills\u201d to distract from the fact they have no economic plan for the working class and because they can no longer \u201cfearmonger\u201d over same-sex marriage now that it is the \u201claw of the land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think a lot of conservatives were very frustrated when marriage equality became the law of the land, and when that decision came down they were like, \u2018OK, what can we do to fearmonger? What can we do to divide people on cultural issues?&#8217;\u201d asserted Cox. \u201cThe conservative party doesn\u2019t have an economic message for working-class people, so they are weaponizing cultural wars. They\u2019re talking about Dr. Seuss and transgender children playing sports when there\u2019s still a global pandemic and people have lost their jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cOrange Is The New Black\u201d star also told Variety that \u201cdiversity\u201d quotas, mandating that corporations hire transgender workers, can reduce trans people to tokens in a corporation\u2019s diversity campaign. To combat tokenism, Cox suggested a full overhaul of the whole \u201coppressive\u201d corporate system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChecking all these boxes to maintain the same oppressive systems that are there in place doesn\u2019t necessarily change the material conditions of working-class trans people. We are interested in real liberation. If we\u2019re interested in real justice, this system needs to also change,\u201d said Cox.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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