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Candis Cox on Being a Black Transgender Woman in the South
Sex Out Loud with Tristan Taormino
Candis Cox is a Gender and Sexuality educator, lecturer, and advocate for the LGBTQ community in Raleigh NC and throughout the country. Cox, who is secretary of the Equality NC board and sits on its executive committee, has worked to develop inclusion policies for national and local organizations in North Carolina’s Triangle region. She received significant media attention when she became the first and only transgender person to meet with then Governor Pat McCrory about HB2, the 2016 law that preempted local anti-discrimination ordinances, and sought to bar transgender people from public bathr Listen Now