--- title: Laverne Cox Madame Tussauds Wax Figure Is First Transgender Figure description: Madame Tussauds in San Francisco to unveil a Laverne Cox wax figure on June 26 during Pride Weekend in San Fran canonical: https://time.com/3913553/laverne-cox-transgender-figure-madame-tussauds/ author: Olivia B. 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Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jun 8, 2015 9:49 PM UTC  Laverne Cox attends Netflix's Orange Is The New Black screening and Q&A at the Directors Guild Of America on May 20, 2015 in Los Angeles. Laverne Cox attends Netflix's Orange Is The New Black screening and Q&A at the Directors Guild Of America on May 20, 2015 in Los Angeles. Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic/Getty Images  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jun 8, 2015 9:49 PM UTC Madame Tussauds San Francisco announced Monday that it will debut a wax figure of [Laverne Cox](http://time.com/3822970/laverne-cox-2015-time-100/), star of _Orange Is the New Black_ and a transgender rights activist, on June 26 during Pride Weekend festivities in the Bay Area. It is the first-ever transgender figure in the museum’s history. June 2015 is already shaping up to be a banner Pride Month for the transgender community since a [_Vanity Fair_](http://time.com/3903574/caitlyn-jenner-vanity-fair-cover-bruce-jenner/)cover introduced Caitlyn Jenner (formerly known as Bruce Jenner) on June 1. _Read next:_ [_“_](http://time.com/135480/transgender-tipping-point/)[_The Transgender Tipping Point,”_ ](http://time.com/135480/transgender-tipping-point/)[TIME](http://time.com/135480/transgender-tipping-point/)[_‘s June 09, 2014, cover story featuring Laverne Cox_](http://time.com/135480/transgender-tipping-point/) ### Gay Pride in the 1950s: The Photo Booth as a Safe Space  J. J. Belanger cheek-to-cheek with a man in a photo booth. "PGE exhibition, Hastings Park." Vancouver, Circa 1953. J. J. Belanger—ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California Libraries  J. J. Belanger kissing a man in a photo booth. "PGE exhibition, Hastings Park." Vancouver, Circa 1953. J. J. Belanger—ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California Libraries ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] A lot of it is just about listening to transgender people and taking the lead from trans folks. The reality is that I don't represent. Resent the entirety of the trans community, there's multiple experiences and multiple relationships to one's identity. And so it's really about listening to individuals in terms of how they define themselves and describe themselves, and taking them at their word. Be willing to let go of what, preconceptions we might have about people who are different from for us and taking people on their own terms. [ MUSIC ]. When we look at the discrimination that transgender people face, there, there tends to be inner sections of race and class. The homicide rate for example in the LGBQT communities is highest amount trans women, and then we look at transwomen who are being victims of violence, most is trans women of color. So there's something about race intersecting with the gender issues that we have to look at if we're really interested in ending violence against trans women, for example. And trans people in general. If you wanna improve the unemployment rate in the trans community, if you wanna stop the bullying of LGBTQU. We also have to look at race, and, and I think. 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