First interview after coming out… The fact of the surgery was also revealed on the cut of the head.
“I thought I would never have the joy of cutting my hair short,” crying
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(Los Angeles = Yonhap News) Correspondent Jung Yoon-seop = Hollywood star Elliot Page (34), who has converted into a male, appeared on the cover of Time, an American newsletter.
In an interview with Time on the 16th (local time), Page revealed his heart and aspirations as a male transsexual.
Page revealed the fact of the sex change on Instagram in December of last year, and since then, for the first time, it has been before the public in the form of a media interview.
“I am truly excited and deeply grateful for reaching this point in my life,” he said. “On the one hand, there is a lot of fear and anxiety mixed up.”
After coming out, he said, “I expected a lot of support and love, tremendous hatred and transphobia (transsexual hate),” he said. “And that was essentially what happened,” he said.
In fact, Paige’s declaration of’transman’ (male transsexual) made a big splash.
According to Time, on the day of Page’s coming out, more than 400,000 people became his Instagram followers, and millions of netizens cheered him and clicked’Like’ and’Share’.
On the other side, however, podcasts were circulating online, accusing him of changing his gender, saying that he was’a woman in a male locker room’.
“People who are very influential are spreading harmful words (about transgender people),” he stressed. “But transgender people are really real people.”
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Page tells the story of the inner conflict he had suffered and the process of deciding to change gender.
He said he remembers the vivid joy he felt after cutting his hair short when he was 9 years old.
But the joy did not last long. When I was 10 years old, I started walking as a child actor, and I had to regrow my hair to digest the role I was given.
The inner conflict continued even when I became an adult.
As an actress, he said, “I never recognized myself. I couldn’t even see my pictures for a long time.”
In the meantime, outside activities were restricted during the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) pandemic, and Page had the opportunity to look back on himself.
He said, “I had a lot of time to focus on the things that I had unconsciously avoided,” and said that the shame of hiding my sexual identity and the discomfort of not being able to live like this led to coming out.
He also said, “I have become who I am, completely as I am,” after the transsexual disclosure.
Page also revealed the facts of the breast removal surgery themselves.
“Surgery completely changed my life,” he said. “Surgery not only changed my life, but also saved my life.”
“Thanks to the privileges I enjoy (as an actor), I’ve been able to come to where I am,” he said. “I want to use those privileges to help transgender people in a way I can.”
When asked how he felt like cutting his hair short, he said, “I thought this joy would never happen again,” he said.
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