Ellen Page comes out as transgender - Now Elliot Page

Oscar-Nominated ‘Umbrella Academy’ Star Elliot Page Announces He Is Transgender

Elliot Page, the Oscar-nominated star of “Juno” and Netflix’s “The Umbrella Academy,” has announced he is transgender. Elliot, formerly known as Ellen Page, addressed …

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Elliot Page, the Oscar-nominated star of “Juno” and Netflix’s “The Umbrella Academy,” has announced he is transgender.

Elliot, formerly known as Ellen Page, addressed his social media followers saying:

“Hi friends, I want to share with you that I am trans, my pronouns are he/they and my name is Elliot. I feel lucky to be writing this. To be here. To have arrived at this place in my life. I feel overwhelming gratitude for the incredible people who have supported me along this journey. I can’t begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self. I’ve been endlessly inspired by so many in the trans community. Thank you for your courage, your generosity and ceaselessly working to make this world a more inclusive and compassionate place. I will offer whatever support I can and continue to strive for a more loving and equal society,” he wrote.

“I love that I am trans. And I love that I am queer. And the more I hold myself close and fully embrace who I am, the more I dream, the more my heart grows and the more I thrive. To all the trans people who deal with harassment, self-loathing, abuse, and the threat of violence every day: I see you, I love you, and I will do everything I can to change this world for the better,” Page continued.
Page uses both he/him and they/them pronouns, and describes himself as transgender and non-binary, meaning that his gender identity is neither man nor woman.
Nick Adams, GLAAD’s Director of Transgender Media, said “Elliot Page has given us fantastic characters on-screen, and has been an outspoken advocate for all LGBTQ people. He will now be an inspiration to countless trans and non-binary people. All transgender people deserve the chance to be ourselves and to be accepted for who we are. We celebrate the remarkable Elliot Page today.”
Page broke out from his native Canada in 2005 with the revenge thriller “Hard Candy.” Two years later, he starred in Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody’s landmark indie “Juno,” for which Page received an Academy Award nomination among other accolades.
HIs notable roles include Kitty Pryde in the “X-Men” series, Christopher Nolan’s “Inception,” “Whip It!” and Sony’s reboot of “Flatliners.” He has produced and starred in films such as “Tallulah” and “Freeheld,” and last year marked his directorial debut examining environmental racism faced by people of color and the First Nations communities of Canada.
Prior to transition, Page was one of the most visible out gay actors in Hollywood. The Tuesday announcement further enriches his legacy, and adds him to a small but growing number of out trans creators and stars in Hollywood. This includes performers (Laverne Cox, Trace Lysette, Brian Michael Smith) and creators (The Wachowski Sisters, “Transparent” creator Joey Soloway).
Last year, Variety broke the news of the groundbreaking overall content production deal that Netflix signed with Janet Mock, a noted trans storyteller and director of shows like “Pose” and “Hollywood.”

 

[mario if smoke weed]

This just screams "Notice me!! Notice me!!"
Nobody sane should care about Ellen and her mangled vagina. Can't name a single movie she's starred in worth giving a damn about either.

 

[CWCissey]

Can't name a single movie she's starred in worth giving a damn about either.

Super wasn't bad.

 

[Pond Scum]

Ex-wife now lists pronouns as she-they on Instagram, so I guess it worked anyway? Either that or the pronouns are cushioning her from the fallout of divorcing Page.

 

[Spangled Drongo]

Ex-wife now lists pronouns as she-they on Instagram, so I guess it worked anyway? Either that or the pronouns are cushioning her from the fallout of divorcing Page.

Anyone who wants to be called she/they or he/they (whichever “binary” pronoun is associated with their birth sex) is absolutely begging for attention. It’s like they’re saying “hey guys, I has Teh Genders too! Please call me a they, I want to be one of the cool kids!” when the only people who are going to use “they” are those who buy into the whole ideology.

 

[kazuhiro]

Chad Felix Greene has a good piece in The Federalist today on why Ellen Page's attempt to transition, and the media reaction to it, is dangerous: Elliot Page’s Rapid Transformation Looks Like An Alarming Cry For Help (archive).

Spoiler: article text

Elliot Page’s Rapid Transformation Looks Like An Alarming Cry For Help

Presenting Page's swift transformation as something that is harmless, easy, and the key to instant happiness is a dangerous message to send young people.

By Chad Felix Greene
MARCH 18, 2021

Rather than advocate for taking time to fully understand who you want to be or addressing the long and careful journey most transgender people undergo, Elliot Page appears to be the model for rapid-onset gender dysphoria with almost instantaneous positive media reactions after transitioning within a few short weeks.

On Dec. 1, 2020, Ellen Page, star of “The Umbrella Academy,” declared herself “Elliot” Page. Nine weeks later, the announcement came that Page would be divorcing wife Emma Portner after three years.

Then, seven weeks later, on Mar. 16, 2021, Page graced the cover of Time magazine announcing the success of a top surgery — an elective double mastectomy — and declaring of the procedure, “It has completely transformed my life.” While much of this may have been ongoing in the background, at least to the public view this has been a rapid and dramatic change.

Several other things make this turn of events troubling. An adolescent or teenage girl struggling with gender dysphoria or simply not conforming to typical feminine stereotypes will look to Page and believe she only needs to announce to the world her new identity and in a moment’s time all of her anxieties, insecurities, and problems will vanish. She’ll be able to step out into the world as her new, “true” self.

Very few people, however, are willing to provide the genuine, hard, truth of this journey, its real-world consequences, or even of the likelihood of changing one’s mind later.

Page told Time that back in December she predicted “a lot of support and love and a massive amount of hatred and transphobia.” While the article positioned concerns about transgender body mutilation as hateful “vitriol” and stereotypical ignorance, Page was widely celebrated. As GLAAD took the opportunity to point out — along with the article and most reporting on the issue — Page is being positioned as a reluctant hero fighting against rightwing hatred and ignorance.

Just as the current legal battles over medical intervention for gender dysphoria in children and minors and protecting girls’ sports have nothing to do with bigotry towards transgender people, concerns about the rapid change from Ellen to Elliot is not an attack on the Page as an individual at all. Indeed, when Ellen announced she was now “he” and would be going by “Elliot,” within hours, every mainstream reference to the actor changed: suddenly the young girl who starred in “Juno” was labeled a young man named Elliot.

Huffington Post editorial director Noah Michelson celebrated:

So many people say and think so many awful things about trans people because they don’t know any trans people, so they know nothing about what it means to be trans. The more people like @TheElliotPage can tell their stories and the more we listen, the better things will become.

GLAAD, an LGBT advocacy organization, also championed the announcement saying:

Not only is Elliot Page a fine actor, he is also an advocate for equality and justice who continues to educate the world about who trans people really are and about why the current barrage of anti-trans bills promoted by fearmongering politicians are so harmful and unnecessary.

Yet many were astonished and concerned with how instantaneously the corporate media world reacted to affirm Page’s new identity, without question or hesitation. Many also wondered about Page’s thought process in making the decision.

Page had come out as gay in 2014. She said, “I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission,” declaring, “I suffered for years because I was scared to be out. My spirit suffered, my mental health suffered, and my relationships suffered. And I’m standing here today, with all of you, on the other side of all that pain.”

At the time she joked about how tabloid magazines loved to point out her masculine style, which she dismissed by saying she just preferred to be comfortable. She argued gender stereotypes “serve no one,” adding, “There are pervasive stereotypes about masculinity and femininity that define how we’re all supposed to act, dress and speak.”

After announcing her breast amputation, Page argued, “People cling to these firm ideas [about gender] because it makes people feel safe. But if we could just celebrate all the wonderful complexities of people, the world would be such a better place.” But Page’s actions tell a story of drastic changes of personality, identity, and plastic surgery to conform to a specific gender and sex norm.

So for many, seeing Page posing like an awkward teenage boy, fully embracing strict gender stereotypes, seems like a sudden and odd change. Page told Time, however, that she knew she was trans at age nine when she was allowed to cut her hair, explaining, “I felt like a boy … I wanted to be a boy. I would ask my mom if I could be someday.”

Page’s personal journey is not really in question or a concern. As an adult, you are free to make big changes and redefine yourself as you please. If medically changing one’s body and adopting a new identity is what brings Page happiness, then there is really nothing to discuss. If so, I and many others are happy for Page.

There is a legitimate concern, however, about the overall messaging of her transition and how LGBT media and left-wing activists exploit this general tolerance to bully for more aggressive and extreme politics. Page now says this has been a lifelong challenge of differing degrees. Formerly identifying as a lesbian, now Page identifies to Time as nonbinary and queer, with an identity that is an “ongoing process.”

But the rest of us saw a successful, happily married lesbian icon unexpectedly announce she is transgender, quickly file for divorce, and undergo top surgery shortly after. For the audience of young people Page claims to want to help, the entire transition happened in the blink of an eye.

It’s not as simple as picking out a new style of clothing and a nickname. It’s more than cutting your hair short. Medical intervention has permanent and life-altering implications that must be carefully understood by an adult mind capable of consenting to the risks involved.

The belief that personal fulfillment and happiness can only be achieved by hiding sex-specific characteristics and adopting the stereotypes of the opposite sex is deeply disturbing. Presenting all of this to kids as though it’s as simple as Page made it appear is downright dangerous.

Chad Felix Greene is a senior contributor to The Federalist. He is the author of the "Reasonably Gay: Essays and Arguments" series and is a social writer focusing on truth in media, conservative ideas and goals, and true equality under the law. You can follow him on Twitter @chadfelixg.

 

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Chad Felix Greene has a good piece in The Federalist today on why Ellen Page's attempt to transition, and the media reaction to it, is dangerous: Elliot Page’s Rapid Transformation Looks Like An Alarming Cry For Help (archive).

Spoiler: article text

Elliot Page’s Rapid Transformation Looks Like An Alarming Cry For Help

Presenting Page's swift transformation as something that is harmless, easy, and the key to instant happiness is a dangerous message to send young people.

By Chad Felix Greene
MARCH 18, 2021

Rather than advocate for taking time to fully understand who you want to be or addressing the long and careful journey most transgender people undergo, Elliot Page appears to be the model for rapid-onset gender dysphoria with almost instantaneous positive media reactions after transitioning within a few short weeks.

On Dec. 1, 2020, Ellen Page, star of “The Umbrella Academy,” declared herself “Elliot” Page. Nine weeks later, the announcement came that Page would be divorcing wife Emma Portner after three years.

Then, seven weeks later, on Mar. 16, 2021, Page graced the cover of Time magazine announcing the success of a top surgery — an elective double mastectomy — and declaring of the procedure, “It has completely transformed my life.” While much of this may have been ongoing in the background, at least to the public view this has been a rapid and dramatic change.

Several other things make this turn of events troubling. An adolescent or teenage girl struggling with gender dysphoria or simply not conforming to typical feminine stereotypes will look to Page and believe she only needs to announce to the world her new identity and in a moment’s time all of her anxieties, insecurities, and problems will vanish. She’ll be able to step out into the world as her new, “true” self.

Very few people, however, are willing to provide the genuine, hard, truth of this journey, its real-world consequences, or even of the likelihood of changing one’s mind later.

Page told Time that back in December she predicted “a lot of support and love and a massive amount of hatred and transphobia.” While the article positioned concerns about transgender body mutilation as hateful “vitriol” and stereotypical ignorance, Page was widely celebrated. As GLAAD took the opportunity to point out — along with the article and most reporting on the issue — Page is being positioned as a reluctant hero fighting against rightwing hatred and ignorance.

Just as the current legal battles over medical intervention for gender dysphoria in children and minors and protecting girls’ sports have nothing to do with bigotry towards transgender people, concerns about the rapid change from Ellen to Elliot is not an attack on the Page as an individual at all. Indeed, when Ellen announced she was now “he” and would be going by “Elliot,” within hours, every mainstream reference to the actor changed: suddenly the young girl who starred in “Juno” was labeled a young man named Elliot.

Huffington Post editorial director Noah Michelson celebrated:

GLAAD, an LGBT advocacy organization, also championed the announcement saying:

Yet many were astonished and concerned with how instantaneously the corporate media world reacted to affirm Page’s new identity, without question or hesitation. Many also wondered about Page’s thought process in making the decision.

Page had come out as gay in 2014. She said, “I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission,” declaring, “I suffered for years because I was scared to be out. My spirit suffered, my mental health suffered, and my relationships suffered. And I’m standing here today, with all of you, on the other side of all that pain.”

At the time she joked about how tabloid magazines loved to point out her masculine style, which she dismissed by saying she just preferred to be comfortable. She argued gender stereotypes “serve no one,” adding, “There are pervasive stereotypes about masculinity and femininity that define how we’re all supposed to act, dress and speak.”

After announcing her breast amputation, Page argued, “People cling to these firm ideas [about gender] because it makes people feel safe. But if we could just celebrate all the wonderful complexities of people, the world would be such a better place.” But Page’s actions tell a story of drastic changes of personality, identity, and plastic surgery to conform to a specific gender and sex norm.

So for many, seeing Page posing like an awkward teenage boy, fully embracing strict gender stereotypes, seems like a sudden and odd change. Page told Time, however, that she knew she was trans at age nine when she was allowed to cut her hair, explaining, “I felt like a boy … I wanted to be a boy. I would ask my mom if I could be someday.”

Page’s personal journey is not really in question or a concern. As an adult, you are free to make big changes and redefine yourself as you please. If medically changing one’s body and adopting a new identity is what brings Page happiness, then there is really nothing to discuss. If so, I and many others are happy for Page.

There is a legitimate concern, however, about the overall messaging of her transition and how LGBT media and left-wing activists exploit this general tolerance to bully for more aggressive and extreme politics. Page now says this has been a lifelong challenge of differing degrees. Formerly identifying as a lesbian, now Page identifies to Time as nonbinary and queer, with an identity that is an “ongoing process.”

But the rest of us saw a successful, happily married lesbian icon unexpectedly announce she is transgender, quickly file for divorce, and undergo top surgery shortly after. For the audience of young people Page claims to want to help, the entire transition happened in the blink of an eye.

It’s not as simple as picking out a new style of clothing and a nickname. It’s more than cutting your hair short. Medical intervention has permanent and life-altering implications that must be carefully understood by an adult mind capable of consenting to the risks involved.

The belief that personal fulfillment and happiness can only be achieved by hiding sex-specific characteristics and adopting the stereotypes of the opposite sex is deeply disturbing. Presenting all of this to kids as though it’s as simple as Page made it appear is downright dangerous.

Chad Felix Greene is a senior contributor to The Federalist. He is the author of the "Reasonably Gay: Essays and Arguments" series and is a social writer focusing on truth in media, conservative ideas and goals, and true equality under the law. You can follow him on Twitter @chadfelixg.

Nothing Greene writes is good. He supports people trooning out, but he failed at being a tranny so he groomed another homo fifteen years younger than him instead. The absolute state of conservatism.

 

[Der weiße Teufel]

You know you fucked up when tumblr of all places denounces your fuckery in trannydom.
What the fuck, was she just not comfortable being a lesbian anymore? Did she snap due to all the lesbian fetishizing troons and go down the "no one will fetishize us if we're men" route? Does she just have BPD? All of the above?

Tumblr as a whole is still as retarded as ever, there just a few TERFs/radfems/lesbians still hanging around.

 

[NoReturn]

Where are these divorce papers if they're public?

I just tried to find them, but I can't get them online. If someone wants to actually call the New York attorney's office be my guest.

 

[queue-anon]

That vegan diet is destroying her. Skinny with no hair and gross looking skin.

Remember to eat a fucking chicken leg once and a while. Your holier than thou crusade can wait. Your body can't.

Long-term veganism can also destroy a person's mental health, especially women's. I seriously wonder if Page would be in this position if she'd abandoned veganism after about a decade like all the vegans and vegetarians I've known. It takes a lot of dedication to power through it when your body is rebelling.

She needs at least an omelette every week and a steak once a month.

Maybe someone can talk her into it under the logic that veganism is much more rare among men.

 

[pwnest injun]

Just call her a pussy if she won't eat meat and slam brews.

 

[Dogfacefuke]

I feel like this is just the start of the Elliot Roger saga. She looks so fucked up in every single picture I've seen her in for years and years and years now, like it's just screaming on her face. She doesn't even try to hide it, it's extremely unsettling and uncanny.

And if she's on T now she's going to really start going crazy. Trannies always take too much and go hyper masculine but they're fucked in the head to begin with so it just compounds the insanity.

Should be pretty entertaining.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Age 34. Hit that wall like a crash test dummy.

(To be fair, some women can be well over that and have yet to hit the wall).

She is VEGAN. That's why she looks that way. This wall horseshit is fucking r.etarded.

 

[Standardized Profile]

Hormone fuckery is half the reason they get hyper masculine. The other half is their perverted idea of what masculinity is, rooted in their formative adolescent years when they first became afraid of their own developing sexuality and decided rowdy, dumb teenage boys had it better. The Chaz Bono documentary is instructive; Chaz's wife thinks Chaz's behavior is becoming more "masculine," but to any man watching it, she's just acting like an asshole. I wouldn't be surprised if Ellen had been a real asshole to her wife, because she's a "man" now, and men are allowed to do that.

Men troon out to become pretty princesses and gain the benefits of gynocentrism. Women troon out to become assholes and gain the benefits of patriarchy. Both are deluded, about themselves and about society.

 

[Idiot Doom Spiral]

Is it no longer misogyny then if I ruthlessly mock Elliott Page’s five-head?

 

[Muttnik]

Masculinity is more than short hair and domineering behavior. Masculinity is confidence, courage, self-respect, and honor. It's about providing and giving rather than taking. It's about standing firm in your convictions and being the responsible one in the room. It's about quiet, but rational and fair authority. It's about utilizing compassion to cultivate an atmosphere of support. It's about inner strength when others panic. It's about unity and bravery and charging headlong into the storm.

You think Hamburger Phone there has any of that? She just wants what's trendy and soft.

 

[Spangled Drongo]

Masculinity is more than short hair and domineering behavior. Masculinity is confidence, courage, self-respect, and honor. It's about providing and giving rather than taking. It's about standing firm in your convictions and being the responsible one in the room. It's about quiet, but rational and fair authority. It's about utilizing compassion to cultivate an atmosphere of support. It's about inner strength when others panic. It's about unity and bravery and charging headlong into the storm.

You think Hamburger Phone there has any of that? She just wants what's trendy and soft.

It’s always, always the soft boi aesthetic these FTMs go for. Names like Elliot, Kai, Asher, Grayson, Jude, might be flat chested but still hairless, dress like complete soy boys, and act all meek and pathetic in pursuit of “cuteness”. Some don’t even call themselves men, they prefer terms like “transmasculine” and “demiboy” or just “boy” even when they’re in their 20s. (I would have thought Ellen being in her 30s was too old for this shit but apparently not). What they want to be isn’t actually a man, but rather a desexualised woman.

It’s incredibly rare to find one that tries to grow a beard, act masculine and is more rough and tumble. The closest thing I’ve found was a willowy teenage girl with long hair in a heavy metal Facebook group I was in, who didn’t pass as male whatsoever and had clearly drawn fake stubble on her face with eyeshadow, called herself a Scandinavian sounding name like “Magnus Thorsson” and was clearly aiming for the Viking aesthetic. Not once did she mention being trans but it was obvious that she wasn’t a bloke and that wasn’t her real name.

 

[Devyn]

Page told Time, however, that she knew she was trans at age nine when she was allowed to cut her hair, explaining, “I felt like a boy … I wanted to be a boy. I would ask my mom if I could be someday.”

Lol what garbage, she could have claimed to be trans (or at least bi or non-binary) ages ago if that's honestly how she felt, but instead she made a huge fucking deal about how much of a lesbian she was. She was very open and very proud of that identity, she capitalized on it: is she admitting now it was never true? Did she just refuse to undergo SRS and/or identify as the man she "really" was for so long in order to not tank her career? Either she lied about being a lesbian when she was "really" trans, or the trans shit is a grift to salvage roles after she completely destroyed her appearance with a starvation diet (actors get away with looking haggard a lot easier than actresses do). I think it's the latter, but she'd never admit it either way

 

[pwnest injun]

Most likely, she has deep-seated childhood trauma that's completely unresolved and she's doing her best to repress it by building a pretend self without a past.

 

[The Curmudgeon]

What they want to be isn’t actually a man, but rather a desexualised woman.

They're self-hating women who have taken radical feminism to what should be its "logical" extreme. They despise being a woman so much that they must become men; however, they shy away from attempting to be true men which they can never be anyway.

 

[theshep]

Ellen is having an interview with Oprah.