Elliot Page, 34, who has been nominated for various awards for the 2007 Oscar-winning independent film Juno and plays a leading role in current Netflix hit The Umbrella Academy, announced he was transgender in December 2020.
Oscar-nominated actor Elliott Page will become the first transgender man to star on the cover of Time Magazine when the magazine’s latest edition went on sale friday.
Page, aged 34, was nominated for various awards for the 2007 Oscar-winning independent film Juno and plays a leading role in current Netflix hit The Umbrella Academy, has announced that he is trans.
The actor wrote on Instagram and said “can’t begin to express how much love he ultimately feels I’m enough to carry on with my authentic life.” Page is following in the footsteps of actor Laverne Cox, who in 2014 became the first trans woman to appear on the front cover of Time managine under The Transgender Tipping Point, a mainstream media endorsement.
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Since then, trans rights have been the center of a fierce debate in the United States and around the world.
In 2017, then-President Donald Trump announced a ban on transgender personnel from joining the U.S. military, which was overturned by Joe Biden this year.
In the past 12 months, dozens of US states have proposed bills to prevent transgender women and girls from participating in women’s sports, which goes against Biden’s desire for greater inclusion of LGBT people.
Page told Time that he has long felt how the world sees him and how he feels. He said, “I never recognized myself. For a long time, I couldn’t even see a picture of myself.”
