Elliot Page began exploring his gender as a child, but his family shut him down: 'Homosexuality didn't exist.'
In his new memoir, ‘Pageboy,’ the most famous trans man in the world recounts the dark night of the soul — at home, in Hollywood — that led him here.But eventually his mother came around, and Page has since forgiven her for failing to support him early on.. She was able to see him finally at ease with himself.
“I think it’s really inspiring that she’s changed and become such an advocate and ally,” he continued. “It took her time to break out of the ideas she grew up with.” Page didn’t get to experience that growth and forgiveness with his father, though. They’ve been estranged for more than five years, and things took an especially painful turn after his father liked a post from right-wing author Jordan Peterson — targeted at Page.Elliot Page said the showrunner of ‘Umbrella Academy’ was ‘excited’ to make his character, Viktor Hargreeves, trans after he came out in real life.
Page is acknowledging and interrogating the reality of his trauma more than ever through therapy and, recently, the writing of his memoir, “Pageboy,” available Tuesday — but he remains full of gratitude and self-reflection. “I’m such a rare example of what it means to be trans,” Page told Kaufman. “I’m just in this strange position where it’s like, yeah, my journey has really not been easy. At moments, I thought: ‘I don’t know what my future is. I don’t know if I see it.’ But I also just have this amount of privilege that so many trans people do not get.”
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