Elliot Page, first trans man on Time - Lifestyle cover

 For the first time ever, a trans man, Canadian actor Elliot Page, appears on the cover of Time.

    Page, who until a few months ago was called Ellen and in 2008 was nominated for an Oscar for playing the part of a pregnant teenager who decides to keep the baby in "Juno", announced her new identity last December. sexual.

"Now I am fully who I am", says the 34-year-old Elliot on the cover of the magazine in which he reveals, among other things, that he underwent an "important operation" to complete the transformation from woman to man: a decision that "completely life changed ".

    The actor, who in 2014 announced he was gay and now uses the pronouns "he" and "they", talks in the interview about the battles for trans equality, denouncing the "devastating" standards and "pervasive stereotypes about masculine" and feminine "of the world he knows best, the entertainment industry.

Elliot is not only the testimonial of a new gender identity to break through these days in American magazines: Leyna Bloom has become the first transgender woman of color included in the "swimsuit" issue of Sports Illustrated magazine.

Bloom follows in the footsteps of Valentina Sampaio who last year was the first trans photographed in the Swimsuit Issue.

    Leyna, who is of black and Filipino origins, has already been a trailblazer: in 2017 she was one of the first openly trans models on the catwalk at New York Fashion Week and the first trans woman of color on "Vogue" India.

There is therefore greater exposure for trans in America but with the visibility the controversy grows: the latest in the USA concerns the participation of trans girls in school sports.

There is a lawsuit pending, filed by three Connecticut families, claiming that the teen-agers would have an advantage over their "cis" classmates.

    The issue was discussed during the hearings for the confirmation of the new justice minister Marrick Garland, while in many American states the local parliaments have bills on their agenda that would impose a ban.

In one of these, Missouri, a Republican, Christian and conservative father made a moving appeal to allow his daughter to continue playing volleyball: something that would not happen if a provision was approved under which he students must be divided into teams based on the sex assigned at birth.