Vanity Fair/FilmMagicCaitlyn Jenner, who joined social media earlier this month just after revealing her new female name and look, used her 11th tweet to pay tribute to Orange Is the New Black actress and fellow transgender woman Laverne Cox.
The 65-year-old Olympian and Keeping Up With the Kardashians star had occasionally spoken privately to the 31-year-old before and after revealing in an ABC News interview in April that she is transitioning. Cox has often expressed support for her and had told E! News last week that Jenner had contacted her again recently and that she planned on calling her.
".@LaverneCox, you are fierce and fabulous!" read a tweet posted on Jenner's Twitter page, which has acquired more than 2.56 million followers in less than three weeks. "Your support means the world. Thank you for all that you do for the community. #TransIsBeautiful."
"My pleasure," Cox replied late on Wednesday. "Sending you lots of love always. #TransIsBeautiful."
In her ABC News interview, Jenner said Cox had given her advice about transitioning and added that she admired the actress' advocacy work with the LGBT community.
"I would like to work with this community to get this message out," Jenner said.
Last week, Jenner was photographed publicly for the first time since revealing her female name and identity in a Vanity Fair cover story on June 1 and after undergoing more plastic surgery to appear more feminine. She was headed to the LGBT Center's Youth Center, where she met with transgender youth.
(With the release of the Vanity Fair story, Jenner has chosen to identify publicly as a woman and E! News will refer to her using female pronouns. In stories published before this date, she was referred to as Bruce Jenner and male pronouns were used.)
After the article was released, Cox had blogged about Jenner on her Tumblr blog.
"Yes, Caitlyn looks amazing and is beautiful but what I think is most beautiful about her is her heart and soul, the ways she has allowed the world into her vulnerabilities," the actress wrote. "The love and devotion she has for her family and that they have for her. Her courage to move past denial into her truth so publicly. These things are beyond beautiful to me."
Keeping Up With the Kardashians had featured a two-part special titled About Bruce that focused on the Kardashian and Jenner family members' reactions to her gender identity struggle and physical change.
"I was deeply moved by About Bruce and Caitlyn's family's very really struggle with this change and the deep love and devotion that they have for Caitlyn was deeply moving," Cox had told E! News. "I cried many, many times watching it."
Caitlyn Jenner's new E! docu-series I Am Cait debuts on July 26 at 9/8c!