{"id":17641,"date":"2021-03-16T21:28:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T21:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=17641"},"modified":"2021-03-17T12:00:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T12:00:30","slug":"elliot-page-time-magazine","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/elliot-page-time-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"For Elliot Page, Shame &amp; Discomfort Gave Way To Revelation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17646\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17646\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width size-large wp-image-17646\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/elliot-page-for-time-magazine-.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Elliot Page\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elliot Page on TIME (Photograph by Wynne Neilly for TIME)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/ellen-page-transgender-elliot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elliot Page<\/a> is ready for his moment and is opening up about it to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5947032\/elliot-page\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Time<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> magazine<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. On Tuesday, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Time<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> released its latest cover starring Page, who was incredibly candid about his journey to becoming a fully realized person. It\u2019s his first interview since disclosing he is transgender on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CIQ1QFBhNFg\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instagram<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> last December. \u201cI 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,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CIQ1QFBhNFg\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8221; he wrote at the time<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u201cWhat I was anticipating was a lot of support and love and a massive amount of hatred and transphobia,\u201d Page told <em>Time<\/em>, looking back. \u201cThat\u2019s essentially what happened.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CIQ1QFBhNFg\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:500px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CIQ1QFBhNFg\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CIQ1QFBhNFg\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by @elliotpage<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Page, the decision to disclose was based on what he felt was his responsibility to share his truth. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cExtremely influential people are spreading these myths and damaging rhetoric \u2014 every day you\u2019re seeing our existence debated,\u201d Page says. \u201cTransgender people are so very real.\u201d He says his time in isolation, brought on by the lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19, allowed him to \u201creally focus on things that I think, in so many ways, unconsciously, I was avoiding.\u201d He and his wife, Emma Portner who were married in 2018, separated earlier this year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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\u2019s memoir <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Becoming-Man-Transition-P-Carl\/dp\/1982105100\/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&amp;keywords=becoming+man&amp;qid=1615925769&amp;sr=8-3\" target=\"_blank\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Becoming a Man<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as a source of inspiration. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI was finally able to embrace being transgender,\u201d Page says, \u201cand letting myself fully become who I am.\u201d That meant changing his name and getting top surgery, <em>Time<\/em> reports. \u201cPage describes surgery as something that, for him, has made it possible to finally recognize himself when he looks in the mirror, providing catharsis he\u2019s been waiting for since the \u2018total hell\u2019 of puberty,\u201d the story reads. \u201cIt has completely transformed my life,\u201d Page said. \u201cSo much of his energy was spent on being uncomfortable in his body. 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