Laverne Coz: A Rhetorical Analysis

I also agree that intersectionality have a huge influence in the struggles that Laverne Coz is facing right now. In her speech, she listed some of her multiple identities such as being born as African American transgender woman, comes from a working class background, and raised by a single mother. All these identities intersect with one another causing discriminations. In her speech, she points out the obstacle that the transgender are facing in the community. Also in regards to the definition of a woman provided by Sojourner Truth and Simone de Beauvior, Laverne Coz has her own definition of what is a woman. She became a woman not because she was born as one, but because she chose to be one. She made into a woman not in reference
to a man, but in reference to what she really feels inside. Furthermore, she stresses the words “Aint I a woman?”, which clearly convey that no matter what her original gender was, she is a woman now.