Elliot Page is one of the most prominent faces of the LGBTQ community in Hollywood.
It was only in December that he announced that he was transgender: "My name is Elliot".
Now the 34-year-old will be given a special and at the same time historical honor: he will be the first transgender man to grace the cover of the famous "Time Magazine" on Friday.
In doing so, he follows in the footsteps of Laverne Cox, who was the first transgender woman to appear on the cover in 2014.
Page, who recently appeared in the successful Netflix superhero series “The Umbrella Academy” and was nominated for an Oscar in 2007 for the leading role in the film “Juno”, had declared in December that he was afraid of rejection and bullying: “The The truth is, although I feel deeply happy at the moment, I am afraid of the hatred, the 'jokes' and the violence ”.
"I'm tired of hiding"
In 2014, Page had announced that he was a lesbian.
At a conference of the Human Rights Campaig, "he gave an emotional speech in which he said:" I'm tired of hiding. "In 2018, Page married the dancer Emma Portner.
The rights of trans people have been debated in the United States for years.
Shortly before he was voted out of office, Donald Trump's administration withdrew a regulation that protects trans people from discrimination in the healthcare sector.
The Ministry of Health announced that the government will now revert to interpreting the word "gender" as "male or female and as determined by biology".
The new US President Joe Biden had criticized the plan in the election campaign and pointed out that the government's announcement came not only in the middle of the corona pandemic, but also on the anniversary of the attack on an LGBT nightclub in Orlando in 2016 and in the middle of Pride -Month.
“I never recognized myself.
I couldn't even look at a photo of myself for a long time, ”Page was now telling Time magazine.
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