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Elliot Page says he’s joined a dating app. On his Instagram stories, Page posted a photo of himself yesterday (June 30) lying on a bed with Umbrella Academy co-star Ritu Arya, huddled over a device. He captioned the image: “@rituarya guiding me on my first dating app ever”
It’s not known what dating app Page has joined. Last September, Page Six suggested the Oscar-nominated actor had been spotted on the exclusive, invite-only Raya app.
Page’s Instagram posting would suggest he’s new to the dating app world, so that story could have been incorrect.
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Page, 35, came out as transgender in December 2020. At the time, he was married to dancer Emma Portner. The couple wed in 2018 but announced their separation a few weeks after Page came out as a trans man.
Portner said she ‘proudly’ supported Elliot’s decision to come out as transgender and revealed the split had been amicable.
They later clarified that they had split the previous summer, before Page made his announcement. They divorced in early 2021.
Related: Elliot Page gets emotional explaining what brought him “the most joy” in transitioning
Page recently appeared on Late Night With Seth Myers and spoke about how his life had improved since he came out.
“I think of the times in my life where I was the most uncomfortable, where I was the most unwell,” he said.
“Those were the times where I was the most angry. And I was the most unkind to myself or self-righteous or all of those things. It’s improved my life drastically.”
He added: “I hope the people who do have an issue with me, can either hear that or embrace that.”
LumpyPillows
Good for Elliot. As a trans man it must be interesting to fill out a dating app.
He did a good job on Umbrella Academy, although the season was a bit up and down for me. Most people seemed to really like it. His transition was handled well and did not make me gag, like on Star Trek Discovery.
Neoprene
Yawn.
tallskin4
is it good to promote lesbians with mental health issues who are waved through mutilating surgery by unscrupulous doctors?
She needs gentle therapy not the slash of cold hard steel across her chest.
No-one is born in the wrong body and silly gays like those who work for Queerty shouldn’t be cheering on such wicked ideas.
How did this reactionary gender tripe ever become progressive and left wing?
dvdphn
Homosexuality was looked upon as a mental illness, thought to be “curable” through conversion therapy.
We know better now. Accept the fact that trans people exist. Non-binary, genderfluid, intersex, and all others in the rainbow spectrum exist. Nobody is forcing you to identify that way, but to deny others of their identity is just wrong.
No one is born in the wrong body? So, people with birth defects, deformities, mutations, etc., should just accept how they are and not do anything about it? No corrective life-saving surgeries? People shouldn’t wear glasses? Wheelchairs?
Please stop being so close-minded.
tallskin4
dvdphn “No one is born in the wrong body? So, people with birth defects, deformities, mutations, etc., should just accept how they are and not do anything about it?”
Hmmm i don’t think you’ve realised you’ve just proved the opposite here to what you intended!
LumpyPillows
I see the similarities between being gay and trans. I also see the differences. We need more research into trans issues. I’m not sure transitioning is the right medical path, but I choose to support people who make this decision…even if I’m not sure it will actually fix the underlying issues.
Bosch
Tallskin, I’m a psychologist and a neuroscientist. You’re missing a crucial bit of information: the sex chromosomes control the sex of the reproductive system. The reproductive system controls secondary sex characteristics. However, these do not control the sex of the brain.
Male and female brains have very little differences, but one of those differences is that female brains have a much higher saturation of a type of protein which acts as an oestrogen signalling pathway.
Neurological examination indicates that trans individuals, before hormonal transition, have the saturation of oestrogen signalling pathways typical of the sex associated with their gender identification.
In other words, trans-men have physically male brains before transitioning, and trans-women have physically female brains before transitioning.
If you’re a man of logic and compassion, this information should soften your opinion on whether Elliot needs therapy. If you’re just a man with issues, then I’m sorry.
MizzTV
Yay Elliot! I hope he finds his forever person!
tallskin4
SHE. No-one can change sex
Neoprene
Unlikely to find a “forever person.” Narcissists aren’t trying to.
London_resistance
So many silly giggly gays who whoop over this harmful gender nonsense really don’t know what the issues are, but go along with it cos it’s all so trendy and progressive!
From my point of view I am a materialist, and therefore I don’t believe in souls or gendered “essences”. There is no such thing possible as “being born in the wrong body” or being “assigned one’s gender at birth”- you are the sex you are, end of.
This new gender religion is incoherent and is a faith I do not share.
As a gay activists and vague intellectual and centrist/lefty and a feminist I want to smash gender and smash the binary, not reinforce it with these clichéd parodies that mock everything we fought for in the 80s, 90s, and into this century. Trans activitism has turned the clock backwards, in every way.
Bosch
Gender isn’t an “essence”, it’s a description of behavioural and psychological characteristics. You’re not smashing the binary at all; you’re reinforcing it by conflating gender with sex.
London_resistance
Bosch- Nice trans word salad, a classic example of the genre.
“Trans word salad” is a a set of words put alongside each other seeming to have meaning but actually say nothing at all.
Bosch
Oh jeez, was my post too complicated for you? Sorry, I must have overestimated your cognitive ability, since you referred to yourself as a “vague intellectual”.
Diplomat
Bosch,
You hit the nail on the head. A female body with a male brain and visa versa is exactly what trans ppl deal with. That’s harsh! Thx for putting it in medical terms.
London_resistance
Bosch: ” trans-men have physically male brains before transitioning, and trans-women have physically female brains before transitioning.”
This is just more trans salad voodoo! we’re back to “magical essences”, ‘female and male brains’ and “i was born in the wrong brain” nonsense
“If you’re a man of logic and compassion, this information should soften your opinion on whether Elliot needs therapy. ” – Oh the old “be kind” and shut up! And meanwhile trans activists mask up and commit violence and threaten real women- so, no will def not shut up!
I don’t believe you and your cranky pseudo science. I particularly don’t believe you because trans and trans activists cannot stop lying for a second. You people lie about trans suicide rates, you lie about the success of transitioning and you like about the stats for boys and girls who detransition, you lie about hormones and puberty blockers being harmful and the effects reversible.
But what’s the worst thing about your insidious lying is that you con gay and lesbian teens into believing they can overcome adolescent anxiety about the changes their bodies are going through via becoming the opposite sex. You people are monstrous. Leave gay and lesbian kids alone.
But
1) even if we accept what you say and that trans men and trans women have different brains, (let’s ignore the evolutionary cautions of that!) that calls even more strongly for strong therapies and not giving them toxic drugs and slicing parts of them off, causing irreversible damage
2) You completely ignore the autogyniphile aspect of men men dressing up as women, for sexual kinkiness, that many trans women freely admit to. And since this is the majority of trans women that is most of them.
3) you ignore the rapid onset gender dysphoria nature of what young women are going through in our culture, where group interaction strongly influences young girls to think they solve their problems by transitioning to male
Bosch
“And since this is the majority of trans women that is most of them. ”
And you accuse ME of word salad?
Hahaha cranky pseudo science… Measurable physical characteristics, sweetheart. You get less intellectual by the minute.
All three of your points are opinion and presumption. I gave you biology, you’re giving conspiracies. And you’re conflating crossdressing with being trans now.
Tell me, what makes you think trans people are trying to convert gay and lesbian kids? If we could convince people to have different gender identities than they have, then there wouldn’t be any trans people, now would there? You didn’t think this conspiracy through, did you?
London_resistance
Bosch -” If we could convince people to have different gender identities than they have, then there wouldn’t be any trans people, now would there?”
Exactly. It’s not real
Bosch
“Exactly. It’s not real”
You have reading comprehension issues.
tallskin4
BOSCH – will you condemn the very real threats of violence by trans identified men and trans activists against women who protest that sex is real, and against public figures such as JK Rowlings?
And will you condemn the thugs in masks who threatened women’s rights protestors in Bristol the other weekend?
And for the record I condemn any threats of violence made against trans identified men and women (not that are any but hey let’s pretend here!).
Bosch
Of course I condemn violence. But are you suggesting that violent trans people are representative of all trans people?
Are violent gay men representative of all gay men?
Are violent white people representative of all white people?
Bosch
I don’t understand; you thought I would be pro-violence because I’m not anti-trans?
London_resistance
Autogyniphilia is all too real. It is definitely NOT a conspiracy! The conspiracy part comes from trans and their gullible fans who deny it exists and call it a bigoted conspiracy, when in fact it’s a recognised sexual kink of middle aged men.
Definition: Autogynephilia is defined as a male’s propensity to be sexually aroused by the thought of himself as a female. It is the paraphilia that is theorized to underlie transvestism and some forms of male-to-female (MtF) transsexualism. Autogynephilia encompasses sexual arousal with cross-dressing and cross-gender expression that does not involve women’s clothing per se.
What happens is trans identified middle aged men (autogyniphiles) use ‘trans” kids to cloak their seedy sexual kink in a cloak of innocence, then broadcast that anyone who opposes their sexual kink is driving trans kids to suicide!
Bosch
You claim to be a gay activist, yet you spread the trope of “they’re trying to convert our children!”
That’s the same nonsense that conservatives used to spout about is gay men. If you were ACTUALLY a gay activist, you would be fully aware of this.
And a gay activist who doesn’t realise that high suicide rates among LGBT teens is due to discrimination? That’s just plain stupid.
But since you’re a troll pretending to be a gay activist, it makes sense.
Btw, not once did I say autogynephilia is not real. But gender identity and sexual fetishes are not the same thing.
MystiRivers
In the bizarro world we now live in, gay men who will not date a trans man are now vilified as “transphobic” – which is itself homophobic. For all the talk of “trans erasure” it sure seems that the trans ideologues are doing their best to “erase” the existence of gay men and lesbians.
tallskin4
Exactly, the abuse is only allowed to go one way!
Bosch
“gay men who will not date a trans man are now vilified as “transphobic””
Only according to teenagers on Twitter. Since when are they the measure of society?
London_resistance
And meanwhile in Cologne, whilst silly gays on here whoop and commend trans identified men and trans identified women, real lesbians are attacked by fat trans women (ie straight men who identify as trans women) who seized the lesbian flag from real lesbians and ran off.
It seems real lesbians aren’t welcome on their own marches any longer.
Bosch
London, I don’t know if you can read German, but that group of women was demonstrating against trans-men. So clearly, everyone on both sides of this scuffle is a jerk.
You tried to make it sound as if they were targeted just for being lesbians. How deceptive.
Bosch
*demonstrating against trans-women