Elliot Page says he experienced “a degree of discomfort that was very erosive and damaging” while going through puberty. The 36-year-old actor, who came out as transgender in 2020, said the process was “just the beginning of really sort of disconnecting from myself”.
Page made the remarks during a preview clip for a new Pride Month television special for ABC News. Titled, The Freedom to Exist with Elliot Page: A Soul of a Nation Presentation, the special is due to air June 6, coinciding with the publication of the actor’s memoir – Pageboy. “When my body started to change, clothes sat on me differently, and all of that was just the beginning of really sort of disconnecting from myself and feeling a degree of discomfort that was very erosive and damaging,” he said, in a preview clip. “I don’t think I even at that point had probably even heard the word transgender.
If it didn’t come up, it would be, you know, briefly in health class with the sound of laughter. “The experiences I had in regards to bullying, it certainly only encourages the shame that literally makes you sick.
The hiding, the self disgust. “‘There’s something wrong with me’ – that narrative. ”He continued: “I think with gender dysphoria, it’s being assigned a gender at birth based on your genitalia and that not being the reality of who you are, (a) sort of incongruence and disconnect with that just continues to chip away at you…“I think it especially became complicated as an actor because people would just go, ‘you’re an actor just put the f****** clothes on. “But needless to say it was so much more than that.
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