Los Angeles: Actor Elliot Page has opened up about his new id. The 34-year-old got here out as a transgender man in December final 12 months.
“What I was anticipating was a lot of support and love and a massive amount of hatred and transphobia. That’s essentially what happened,” mentioned Elliot, who was previously often called Ellen Page when she was a girl, throughout an interview with Time Magazine.
“I felt like a boy. I wanted to be a boy. I would ask my mom if I could be someday,” he added. During the course of the interview, Page additionally talked about battling despair, nervousness, and panic assaults, particularly after the celebrity he obtained for his roles in “Juno” and “Inception”.
“I just never recognized myself. For a long time I could not even look at a photo of myself,” he mentioned.
So, the one resolution Page made to assist him really feel extra comfy in his personal pores and skin was to get prime surgical procedure, which is a surgical process to take away one’s breast tissue. “It has completely transformed my life,” he says of the process, including that not all trans males have the surgical procedure, and notes that it’s fairly costly.
The pandemic led him to come back to phrases along with his gender id. “I had a lot of time on my own to really focus on things that I think, in so many ways, unconsciously, I was avoiding. I was finally able to embrace being transgender and letting myself fully become who I am,” he mentioned.
