Elliot Page is ready for his moment and is opening up about it to Time magazine. On Tuesday, Time released its latest cover starring Page, who was incredibly candid about his journey to becoming a fully realized person. It’s his first interview since disclosing he is transgender on Instagram last December. “I want to share with you all 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,” he wrote at the time. “What I was anticipating was a lot of support and love and a massive amount of hatred and transphobia,” Page told Time, looking back. “That’s essentially what happened.”
For Page, the decision to disclose was based on what he felt was his responsibility to share his truth. “Extremely influential people are spreading these myths and damaging rhetoric — every day you’re seeing our existence debated,” Page says. “Transgender people are so very real.” He says his time in isolation, brought on by the lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19, allowed him to “really focus on things that I think, in so many ways, unconsciously, I was avoiding.” He and his wife, Emma Portner who were married in 2018, separated earlier this year.
He says people like Janet Mock and Laverne Cox served as a road map for authentic success in Hollywood, but he also looked to P. Carl’s memoir Becoming a Man as a source of inspiration. “I was finally able to embrace being transgender,” Page says, “and letting myself fully become who I am.” That meant changing his name and getting top surgery, Time reports. “Page describes surgery as something that, for him, has made it possible to finally recognize himself when he looks in the mirror, providing catharsis he’s been waiting for since the ‘total hell’ of puberty,” the story reads. “It has completely transformed my life,” Page said. “So much of his energy was spent on being uncomfortable in his body. Now he has that energy back.”
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