Elliot Page Reflects on What Exactly Made Him Feel Self-Disgust

Elliot Page, 36, who ’felt like a boy’ as early as age nine, shares the secrets of a profoundly difficult chapter in his life. Page opens up bravely about the personal journey, grappling with the raw emotions of gender dysphoria. This extraordinary interview gets powerful and enlightening.

“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 — and the incongruence and disconnect with that — just continues to chip away at you and chip away at you and chip away at you.”

Elliot says that he was at the point when hiding his self-disgust became a part of his life and then the realization came that something is wrong with him.

That time the actor even didn’t hear anything about transgender people, maybe only briefly at health classes. Elliot had to deal with mocking, and it encouraged “the shame that literary makes you sick.”

Everything got worse during puberty when the shapes of the body started to change, and it was the beginning of “disconnecting from myself. The degree of discomfort was very erosive.”

When he became famous in Hollywood the situation worsen rapidly. He says it became especially complicated as an actor, “because people would just go, ’You’re an actor, just put on the clothes.’ But needless to say, it was so much more than that,” Elliot relieves his deepest pain.

But now Elliot can finally celebrate himself and soak in the sun without any shame. He tries to embrace this new experience as much as possible because a huge part of his life was just trying to move forward.

The actor is ready to share more details in his new book that can help people to understand who they really are, “Feeling so excited that I get to hang with all of you in NYC on June 6, the day that Pageboy makes its debut in the world!”

In the face of adversity, it is essential to remember that there are always pathways leading away from challenging circumstances. Even in the darkest of moments, when it may seem as if there is no way out, hope shines its light to guide us.