Laverne Cox on her childhood, 'Walden' and her new memoir 'Transcendent'

Laverne Cox became a breakout TV star at 40 with a starring role in Orange Is the New Black . Since then, she’s become an advocate and role model for trans people, which she says means “invit[ing] people to see trans people as human beings.” In today’s episode, Cox joins All Things Considered ’s Ailsa Chang for a conversation about her new memoir Transcendent . They discuss Cox’s childhood in…