Laverne Cox Talks Dating arsenic a Transgender Woman
The satellite of online dating tin beryllium a hard spot to navigate.
That's thing actresses Laverne Cox and Angelica Ross person learned implicit the years. The 2 sit down to sermon their scariest dating experiences arsenic transgender women successful this sneak peek astatine the Nov. 16 occurrence of E!'s If We're Being Honest.
Laverne begins by recalling the clip a antheral questioned her sex individuality during a locomotion successful the parkland with a friend. "My person says, 'F you,' and helium had 1 of those folding chairs and helium goes aft my friend," the Inventing Anna prima said of the scary incident. "My friend's instinct was to get successful betwixt maine and the idiosyncratic truthful that the feline wouldn't travel aft me."
Luckily, Laverne said the combat was "over arsenic accelerated arsenic it started," but the crushed wherefore it happened is what amazed her the most. "He was checking things out, wasn't definite if it was good for him to beryllium attracted to me, successful his mind," she continued. "And so, that's wherefore helium needed to corroborate feline oregon girl."
Unfortunately, alarming encounters similar Laverne's are communal for trans women, particularly erstwhile it comes to dating apps.
"They get upset that they've matched with america alternatively of conscionable being like, 'Oh, I'm not interested. Un-match,'" the 50-year-old noted. "They emblem our profiles, and past truthful galore men emblem our profiles, and our accounts are deleted. And they're like, ‘You're doing thing crazy,' and it's just, 'No. I'm conscionable being trans connected a dating app.'"
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But having your relationship deleted is thing compared to Angelica's worst dating app interaction. "I virtually had a antheral endanger to sprout me," the Pose alum shared. "He threatened to sprout maine similar from L.A. to San Francisco."
"Because helium matched with you connected a dating app?" Laverne asked, to which Angelica responded, "Yeah, and due to the fact that I called him retired for being ignorant."
Laverne wrapped up the affectional speech by giving trans women immoderate dating app advice, stating, "You truly conscionable person to un-match and delete and determination on."
Check retired the clip supra and perceive Laverne and Angelica's afloat speech connected the caller occurrence of If We're Being Honest contiguous astatine 10 p.m. connected E!.
Watch a marque caller occurrence of If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox Wednesdays astatine 10 p.m., lone connected E!.