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The actor formerly known as Ellen Page thanked fans in the trans community for helping him on his journey to ‘finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self.
FILE: The actor formerly known as Ellen Page has come out as transgender. He has taken the name Elliot Page. Image: Instagram / @ ellenpage.
LOS ANGELES – The Oscar-nominated star of Juno has come out as transgender, introducing herself as Elliot Page on Tuesday in social media posts that expressed joy at sharing the news, but also fear of a possible backlash.
The actor formerly known as Ellen Page thanked fans in the trans community for helping him on his journey to “finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self.”
“I love being trans. And I love being queer,” wrote the Canadian-born Page, who recently starred in the Netflix superhero series. The Umbrella Academy.
Page, 33, burst onto the Hollywood scene with an Oscar-nominated role as a pregnant teenager in the 2007 hit. Juno.
The actor also appeared in the 2009 roller derby comedy. Whip, the sci-fi hit of 2010 Start alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and the 2012 Woody Allen comedy To Rome with love.
Page came out gay in 2014, quickly became a standard-bearer for Hollywood’s LGBTQ community, and married dancer Emma Portner in 2018.
Though largely absent from big-budget Hollywood blockbusters since 2014 X-Men: Days of Future Past, Page has repeatedly ignored suggestions of being typecast or rejected by Tinseltown.
“The truth is that, despite feeling deeply happy at this moment … I am afraid of invasiveness, hatred, ‘jokes’ and violence,” Page wrote in his publication identifying as transgender.
Page also criticized politicians who “criminalize trans health care and deny our right to exist,” as well as influential public figures who use “a massive platform that continue to spew hostility toward the trans community.”
“(You have) blood on your hands. You unleash a vile and degrading fury of rage that lands on the shoulders of the trans community,” added Page, noting the high rates of suicide attempts among the community.
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