Since appearing on Orange Is the New Black as Sophia Burset (Litchfield Prison's premiere fire fighter-turned-hairstylist), actress and activist Laverne Cox has become a household name as both a fan favorite and as the actress — and trans woman — currently being credited with shining a light on the trans community and the issues trans people face on a day-to-day basis.

These days, Cox has been receiving a lot of well-deserved positive attention, but it hasn't always been that way. As the guest on last night's Totally Biased, the actress told W. Kamau Bell that a third grade teacher once told her mother that if she didn't get young Laverne (who was then in the body of a boy) into therapy, her son was "going to end up in New Orleans wearing a dress." "At the time, I was eight years old," Cox recalled. "And I was like, 'Oh, my god. This is awful. I'm going to end up wearing a dress…and my mother's not going to love me' and for me it was 'My mother is not going to love me, I'm not going to be successful'…I equated being trans with not being successful."

Seeing how Cox is currently portraying one of the most hyped roles on one of the most hyped TV shows of the year, she's clearly proven her young self wrong