"Disney/ABC’s Celebrity Family Feud featured its first-ever all-transgender team on Thursday, with actor Laverne Cox calling hisfellow competitors “my chosen family” as they tried to raise money for black trans prostitutes.
“We’re at Celebrity Family Feud, and I am here with my chosen family, my dear sisters Mila Jam, Joslyn De Freece, TS Madison, and Peppermint,” Cox said, introducing fellow transgender contestants in a video posted to Instagram, ahead of the episode’s airing.
The all-trans group, dubbed “Team Laverne,” competed in Celebrity
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Family Feud to raise money for the TS Madison Starter House, a charity led by Madison that describes itself as “an innovative housing initiative designed to support and empower black trans women engaged in sex work.”
“We’re playing for the TS Madison Starter House, partnered with NAESM,” Madison said in the video, explaining, “The TS Madison Starter House is a re-entry house for system-impacted trans women.”
During the episode, Celebrity Family Feud host Steve Harvey asked if he could just call Madison “TS,” to which the trans contestant replied, “Of course,” adding, “Listen, I take it short or long” — a sexual double entendre causing the audience to cheer and Harvey to look flabbergasted." Breitbart