Redefining Realness has received praise from which trans activist who starred on Orange is the New Black?
Laverne Cox Laverne Cox is an American actress and LGBT advocate. She rose to prominence with her role as Sophia Burset on the Netflix series "Orange Is the New Black", becoming the first openly transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the acting category, and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer/musician Angela Morley in 1990. In 2015, she won a Daytime Emmy Award in Outstanding Special Class Special as executive producer for "Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word." This made her the first openly transgender woman to win a Daytime Emmy as an executive producer. Also in 2015, she became the first openly transgender person to have a wax figure of herself at Madame Tussauds. In 2017, she became the first transgender person to play a transgender series regular on broadcast TV as Cameron Wirth on CBS' s "Doubt".
Georgie Stone Georgie Sarah Jean Robertson Stone (born 20 May 2000 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian transgender advocate who has made appearances on shows such as "Four Corners", "The Project" and "Australian Story", as well as various radio appearances. At the age of 10, Stone was the youngest person to receive hormone blockers in Australia and eventually changed the law requiring transgender children and their families having to apply to the Family Court of Australia to access stage one treatment. She continues to advocate for transgender children, specifically in trying to change the law surrounding access to cross-sex hormones without the interference of the Family Court.