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Fresh off his appearance at the Academy Awards, trans actor Elliot Page has landed in the headlines yet again. The star of the hit series Umbrella Academy just announced his character on the show will also come out as transgender.Related: DC Comics just hired this disabled trans actor to play a disabled bi superheroPage took to Twitter on March 29 to share the news. “Meet Viktor Hargreeves,” the actor wrote.

He also shared a picture of Viktor from the upcoming season of the Netflix show.Meet Viktor Hargreeves ??@UmbrellaAcad pic.twitter.com/ZraQNBhfTb— Elliot Page (@TheElliotPage) March 29, 2022Netflix retweeted Page’s tweet, writing: “Welcome to the family, Viktor — we’re so happy you’re here.”Welcome to the family, Viktor — we’re so happy you’re here ??

https://t.co/hQwD4Vvlkd— Netflix (@netflix) March 29, 2022Make no mistake, Viktor’s coming out is a big deal. When Umbrella Academy debuted back in 2019, Page had not yet come out as transgender and played the character as he originally appeared in the comics: a cisgender female.Related: Of course Megyn Kelly couldn’t let Trans Day of Visibility pass without doing something transphobicViktor coming out in Season 3 not only represents another example of trans representation in a popular series,but it marks one of the few times a character came out as trans subsequent to the actor doing so.It seems like a perfect way to welcome the Transgender Day of Visibility.

Need more ways to celebrate? Have a look at five more of our favorite trans characters to land on the TV screen…Lord, what more can we say about the groundbreaking cast of Pose, the series that took trans representation to a whole new height?

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