Canadian actor Elliot Page, known until now as Ellen Page, declared himself transgender on Tuesday and asked everyone to address him as Elliot from now on.
“Hello friends, I want to share with you that I am trans, my pronouns are he / they and my name is Elliot.
I love being trans.
And I love being
queer
.
And the more I hug myself and fully embrace who I am, the more I dream, the more my heart grows and the more prosperous, "wrote the 33-year-old interpreter, famous for his portrayal of Juno in the homonymous film in 2007 and for his participation in the series from Netflix
The Umbrella Academy
.
Page, who has received the support and affection of a multitude of artists, including the singer Miley Cyrus or his own wife, the dancer Emma Portner, is not the only well-known face that has publicly expressed his identity.
Caitlyn jenner
In June 2015, a magazine cover shocked the world.
It was Caitlyn Jenner, a person unknown until then, but tremendously famous at the same time.
Because she was the woman who had become who until then was Bruce Jenner, former Olympic athlete, father of the sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner and stepfather of the famous Kardashians.
Jenner made it known, through a photograph of Annie Leiboivitz and a lengthy interview in
Vanity Fair
, that she was a transgender woman, and she was happy with this new vital step.
His phrase "Call me Caitlyn" ("Call me Caitlyn") went around the world.
Since then, it has become a benchmark for the trans community.
Although iconic, her image has not always had a positive aspect for the group, as she has also been highly criticized for her conservative ideas and her support for Donald Trump, whose speech sometimes clashed head-on with that of his group.
Now, Caitlyn Jenner recognizes that her way of thinking has evolved and ensures that she identifies as "economically conservative, socially progressive."
Conchita Wurst
The winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 was the Austrian singer Conchita Wurst, the character of a bearded woman created by Tom Neuwirth, born in 1988 in the Austrian town of Gmunden.
After the award, Wurst has become an icon of freedom and the fight against LGTBphobia and has been a spokesperson for equality regardless of the sexual orientation of each person.
“Honestly, it wasn't my goal.
I am simply an artist who at one point related his experiences.
I do what I like.
It seems good to me that people take me as a symbol of the LGTB cause and that they use me to give visibility, but I simply did what I wanted, "the artist told EL PAÍS before giving the proclamation of the Madrid Pride festivities 2014.
Bibiana Fernandez
"I handle confinement well because I am a woman who is used to it because I lived my childhood and adolescence confined in a body that did not belong to me," said the actress and television collaborator last April.
Bibiana knows what she is talking about because she has experienced firsthand the ups and downs of fame and life, as well as her struggle to make her way in a quiet society where being a transsexual was neither understood nor accepted.
He was born in Tangier on February 13, 1954 and, like Manuel Fernández Chica, he even did military service, which was then mandatory for all men.
At that time, her sexual condition had few paths if she wanted to be an artist and she ended up in Barcelona performing in the gulf establishments of the Parallel among hostess and transvestite girls.
Bibi Andersen, which was her stage name in those years, became known to the general public in Vicente Aranda's film
Cambio de sexo
.
It was 1976, Franco had just died and what became known as the epoch of uncovering began in the cinema.
Her identity card with a feminine name did not arrive until 1994, years in which she was part of the Madrid scene and the group of actresses called
Almodóvar girls
.
Since then, he is one of the biggest Spanish references in the trans community.
Cristina Ortiz, The Poison
Born on March 19, 1964 in the Almeria town of Adra, Cristina Ortiz was named José Antonio.
Her family called her Joselito;
some of them would never stop doing it, not even after his death, in November 2016. Better known as La Veneno, and whose story Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, known as the Javis, have been shown with great success this year With the series
Veneno
, he was an icon and one of the first visible faces to show the reality of the transsexual collective and trans prostitutes, showing a world that until then had remained hidden, in the shadows.
Angela Ponce
In 2018, Miss Universe Spain made history by crowning a transsexual woman for the first time.
Ángela Ponce, then 27 years old and originally from the Sevillian town of Pilas (although she won the title of Miss Cádiz in 2015), finally fulfilled her dream.
At that time, she could not participate in Miss World because they did not accept transsexual women, but three years later she has been able to appear in this other contest, the first that has firmly committed to diversity.
"My purpose is to make my reality known and talk to the world a little about education in diversity, which is so scarce, an important factor and that would undoubtedly end with so much
bullying
, prejudice and violence," the model has recognized on several occasions. .
Alexis Arquette
Rossana and Patricia Arquette's sister, the actress Alexis, who died in 2016 at the age of 47, also mutated from a man to a woman before the public scene.
As a man, he participated in films such as
Pulp Fiction
or
Three ways to love
;
and as a woman she has collaborated on other films, such as
Together and Scrambled
, with Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler.
Jackson Theron, son of Charlize Theron
Actress Charlize Theron revealed in early 2019 in an interview with
The Daily Mail
that her eldest daughter, seven-year-old Jackson, is transgender.
For several years, the Hollywood tabloids have remained puzzled and sometimes not unaware of criticism the relationship of the actress with her daughter, who was presented to the public as a boy when he was adopted in 2012 and whom photographers have captured on numerous occasions with his mother in skirts or dresses.
An attitude that aroused controversy, criticism and even questioned Charlize Theron's ability as a mother.
“Yes, I also thought it was a boy.
Until with three he looked at me and said: 'I'm not a child!', The actress said in the British tabloid.
In addition to Jackson, Theron adopted August in 2015.
“I have two beautiful daughters that I want to protect and see prosper.
They should be the ones to find themselves growing up, it's not something I have to decide.
My job as a mother is to honor and love them and make sure they have everything they need to be who they want, ”she added.
Chaz Bono, son of Cher
The son of Cher and the late singer Sonny Bono was born a woman, but in 2009 he underwent a sex change operation.
Soon after, Chastity's name, given by her parents, was officially changed to Chaz.
At the time she made her identity public, it was difficult for Cher to come to terms with it, but over time the two have reconciled, serving as a reference for thousands of families around the world.
Valentina Sampaio and May Simon Lifschtiz, Victoria's Secret models
In the summer of 2019, the same week that it was known that the world's best known lingerie firm, Victoria's Secret, stopped organizing its famous annual parade due to the lack of diversity, it decided to make a splash and presented Valentina Sampaio, the first trans model that became part of the universe of the firm.
She herself posted a photo on her Instagram account from the
backstage
of the photoshoot for the new campaign
for Victoria's Secret
Pink
line
.
“Never stop dreaming, people.
Life is amazing.
Want more, hate less.
Hatred is useless, so do not waste your time with it ,
"wrote the
top
, 23.
Since then it has not been the only one.
In an attempt to wash the image, the exclusive lingerie firm has counted on other trans models for its advertising campaigns, such as the Danish May Simon Lifschtiz.
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Jazz jennings
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Since she learned to speak she made it very clear to her family that she was a girl, not a boy.
On her fifth birthday, she already appeared before her family and friends as a girl wearing a colorful full-length swimsuit, and at the age of six she told her story on a television program.
After that interview, he continued to share his experiences on social media, until in 2015 he became the star of a
reality show
about his day to day,
Yo soy Jazz
.
“When they proposed us to do a program, the first thing I thought was that we shouldn't do it,” the young woman, born in Florida, told EL PAÍS in 2018 about the beginnings of the space in which her parents and her three siblings also participate.
“It wasn't that we weren't prepared, but that we wanted to make sure it was a good thing for the transgender community.
In the end, we went ahead and here we are.
The show is about a normal girl, with the problems that other teenagers have, like making friends, dating, trying to be myself, and finding happiness.
It's about a normal girl who happens to be transgender.
It also shows the medical component and the struggle to try to achieve acceptance by society ”.
Since then she has been an outstanding member of the LGTBI + community, especially followed by young people and adolescents.