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"  Remember when Laverne Cox didn&amp;#039;t make TIME&amp;#039;s 100 Most Influential People in the World list and people were rightfully mad? (She&amp;#039;d placed fifth in the online poll.) This is better news: Cox is now the magazine&amp;#039;s cover girl. (The cover is not a response to the backlash, though, a\u00A0TIME\u00A0spokesperson told Buzzfeed; it has been in the works for months.) The issue, which features a story about the growing transgender rights movement, is on stands June 9; a Q&amp;amp;amp;A with Cox\u00A0is online now.\u00A0Choice excerpt: &amp;quot;I was in sixth grade and I was going through puberty. During puberty, the attraction for other boys got really strong. And I learned in church that was a sin. I imagined that my grandmother was looking down on me and that she knew what I was thinking, because she&amp;#039;s in heaven. I just imagined that I was disappointing her and it just was devastating for me. So I went to the medicine cabinet and got a bottle of pills. And took them. And swallowed them. And went to sleep, hoping not to wake up. And I did wake up, with a really bad stomachache. I don&amp;#039;t remember what the pills were. Whatever it was, I thought that they would kill me but they didn&amp;#039;t.&amp;quot; Now on a lighter note:\u00A0Orange Is the New Black\u00A0returns June 6.\u00A0 RELATED: Laverne Cox Is Producing a Documentary About Transgender Teens for MTV Photo Credit: Time \u00A0 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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