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Elliot Page shares ‘biggest joy’ about transitioning
“I do know I look completely different to others, however to me I am simply beginning to seem like myself,” he wrote. “It is indescribable, as a result of I am similar to, there I’m. And thank God.”
In accordance with his essay, he was bullied as a baby.
“Bullying places you in a spot the place, later, you might have a lot unlearning to do,” he wrote. “When you’re getting teased and made enjoyable of and referred to as names every day, there is not any method that is not going to get inside you—significantly if you’re already feeling a lot disgrace.”
He mentioned he did not count on the response to his transition “to be so huge.”
“By way of the precise high quality of the response, it was what I anticipated: love and assist from many individuals and hatred and cruelty and vitriol from so many others,” he wrote. “I got here out as homosexual in 2014, and it is completely different. Transphobia is simply so, so, so excessive. The hatred and the cruelty is a lot extra incessant.”
However Web page is more than pleased with who he’s.
“The best pleasure is simply having the ability to really feel current, actually, simply to be current,” he wrote. “To exit in a gaggle of recent folks and be capable of interact in a method the place I did not really feel this fixed sensation to flee from my physique, this endless sensation of tension and nervousness and wanting out.”