Cox wins a Daytime Emmy for 'Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word' as executive producer, a first for an openly transgender person.
On April 30, 2015, Logo TV's documentary special "Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word" won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Special. As one of the executive producers, Laverne Cox became the first openly transgender person to win a Daytime Emmy Award.
The documentary featured intimate portraits of seven young transgender individuals, offering an unfiltered look at their daily lives, struggles, and triumphs. Cox conceived and produced the project not only to act as a storyteller but to shift the narrative control of transgender stories into transgender hands, moving away from sensationalized media portrayals toward authentic, empathetic representation.
Winning the Daytime Emmy validated Cox's transition from actress to producer and further established her as a multifaceted force in the entertainment industry. It demonstrated that transgender creators could not only be subjects of stories but also architects of the narratives being told about their community. The win added to a growing string of historic firsts for Cox in 2014-2015, reinforcing her role as a trailblazer reshaping the landscape of American television both in front of and behind the camera.