When his star went up and he started cutting parts into big blockbusters like 2010s Getting Started and 2014’s X-Men Days of Future Past, he began fighting depression, anxiety and panic attacks. Page said he did not know how to explain it to people [I was] an actor, just to put on a T-shirt cut for a woman, would make me so sick. ‘
But when he came last December, he was willing to share his truth and appeared in an Instagram message as a transgender, in which he announced that he / they are the pronouns and shared his name Elliot. “I was finally able to be transgender,” he said in the publication, “and to make myself fully who I am.”
At the time of the post, as he told TIME, he was also recovering in Toronto after a top operation. While Page noted that transgender is not just surgery – and for some the operation is unnecessary – he said it enabled him to finally see himself in the mirror and feel comfortable with himself: ‘It has my life completely changed. ‘
Although Page expected to receive love and support after his announcement, he also prepared himself for a “massive amount of hatred and transphobia” – and this was unfortunately the case. About how Page feels today? “This feeling of true excitement and heartfelt gratitude that I have come to this point in my life,” he said, “mixed with a lot of fear and anxiety.”