Elliot Page has announced that he is transgender ❤
A picture of elliot page in a hat reading "Stop Alton Gas", next to a few paragraphs of text too small & blurry to read
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Um... is this an error? They put up a picture of Ellen Page. Typo maybe?
Not a typo, he's Elliot Page
I'm not sure I understand. Please explain?
I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're well intentioned lol. His name used to be Ellen Page but he has come out as a trans gender man, so now his name is Elliot Page. They're the same person
OH! Oh okay - I'm new to this. I didn't understand what was happening. Thank you for explaining. I thought it was some new meme that I missed out on.
In that case, I'm going to join everyone else and say that I am very happy for Elliot Page. I've always been a huge fan of his.
It's kinda funny that the whole Vanya - Viktor trans thing in S3 Umbrella Academy had his siblings behaving pretty similarly. The vibe was pretty wholesome. Basically "I don't really understand it, but you're my bro and we're trying to save the world. On with the plot!"
not the same thing but Agents of Shield had a similar way of dealing with Daisy's name change. Coulson would sometimes slip up and call her by her old name, getting more and more used to it with time. felt real and human rather than disingenuous and robotic.
Oh you know what, you're right. My mind actually went first to the Star Trek Discovery episode where the enby character in that came out, to exactly the same reaction. But Umbrella Academy is a much more obvious comparison.
This is exactly why I try to engage with the apparent trolls sometimes. 95% of the time your reading is right and you disengage shortly after but one in twenty times there’s just a confused person on the other end that needs a little helping hand 🥹❤️
What can happen. I think this was many years ago, and I don't know anyone who doesn't know what transgender means now. Usually the people acting like this are doing so in bad faith. I'm glad this one ended well, but it's notable because it's an exception, not the norm.
It was just like this helping my parents with generational racism. It’s all about willful open-mindedness on their part, and good-intention assuming education on ours.
but for real, when this announcement came out it actually took me real effort to figure out who the fuck Elliot page was because they hadn't really been that active at the time otherwise. no fucking articles anywhere mentioned what they used to be called so i was genuinely very confused.
There's no rule saying he can't play female characters anymore, particularly if he is reprising a previous role. Whether or not he wants to is a different story.