Laverne Cox Has Lost 90% of Her Income and Blames Trump’s ‘Regime’ for Attacking ‘Gender Ideology and DEI’
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- Laverne Cox told The Guardian she has lost 90% of her income over the last few years, blaming the Trump administration's attacks on "gender ideology and DEI."
- Cox made the comments while promoting her new book "Transcendent: A Memoir," the Guardian's own framing of the interview centered on her childhood and life as a trans woman in Trump's America rather than the income angle.
- Cox is an Emmy winner best known for her role on "Orange Is the New Black," and the source notes her corporate speaking engagements as a key part of her career.
- The Guardian interview spans Cox's childhood, her memoir, and her current life as a trans woman in the U.S. — a wider scope than the income-loss hook that drove the aggregator headline.
Why it matters: A major Emmy winner putting an explicit 90% income-loss figure on the record — and tying it directly to the Trump administration's stance on gender ideology and DEI — is an unusually concrete celebrity disclosure. It turns abstract policy rollback into a named, personal dollar impact, and lands alongside a memoir push that frames Cox's story as a broader trans-American narrative.
