(Image via Wynne Neilly for Time) Elliot Page is continuing to use his platform to change hearts and minds on what it means to be transgender.
As the world's most famous trans men — and one of the most famous people ever to come out as trans, period — he graces the cover of Time. “I'm fully who I am” sounds a lot like a new “Yep, I'm gay” to me.
Inside: ... He does remember the acute feeling of triumph when, around age 9, he was finally allowed to cut his hair short. “I felt like a boy,” Page says. “I wanted to be a boy.
I would ask my mom if I could be someday.” Growing up in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Page visualized himself as a boy in imaginary games, freed from the discomfort of how other people saw him: as a girl.