A thoughtful response.

Before Caitlyn Jenner, there was another ground-breaking magazine cover.

Laverne Cox, the transgender actress who plays Sophia Burset on Orange Is the New Black, became the first trans person to appear on the cover of Time one year ago.

Today, the pioneering star took to her Tumblr account to share some thoughts about Jenner’s Vanity Fair cover.

She praised Caitlyn for her bravery, but reminded the world that most trans people don’t have the resources of someone like Jenner to achieve such a convincing transition.

Laverne Cox’s Time cover.

I.e, most trans people don’t have access to Kim Kardashian’s wardrobe, Annie Leibovitz, plastic surgeons and professional make-up artists and stylists. And many don’t want to epitomise the current ideal of womanly (or masculine) beauty, anyway.

It doesn’t make them any less a trans woman or man than someone who is deemed to be able to “pass” as a woman or man.

Caitlyn Jenner has access to extensive resources that poor and working class trans people do not.

Jenner told Vanity Fair that Cox and other trans women like her had helped blaze a trail for her to become Caitlyn.

“There are lot of very intelligent women,” Jenner said. “You look at the pioneers in trying to get the message out: Laverne Cox, Janet Mock, Geena Rocero, Carmen Carrera. Back in the ’80s, I was alone. And I’m kind of following in their footsteps. They made it easier for me. I hope, with my honesty, I can make it easier for someone else down the line.”