Elliot Page Recalls Feeling ‘Self-Disgust’ During Bullying In The Presence Of Gender Dysphoria
Actor Elliot Page has thought back on a challenging period in his life. “The Umbrella Academy” star came out as transgender in 2020.
In an E! News exclusive peek at “The Freedom to Exist with Elliot Page: A Soul of a Nation Presentation,” an ABC News Pride Month program focusing on the trans community, he recently opened up about his prior difficulties with gender dysphoria. READ MORE: Elliot Page Is ‘Grateful To Be Here’ As He Opens Up ‘Difficult’ Transition Journey Elliot Page talked openly about how puberty caused his physique to alter.
He claimed that this is when he started to experience a level of agony that was really corrosive and harmful. “My body started to change and clothes sat on me differently, and all of that just was, really was the beginning of really sort of disconnecting from myself and feeling a degree of discomfort that was very erosive and damaging,” Page shares in a sneak peek clip of the sit-down that was shared by “Good Morning America.” Elliot Page claimed that during that period, he was relentlessly tormented at school.
It increased one’s sense of guilt and “self-disgust.” “I think with gender dysphoria, it’s being assigned a gender at birth based on your genitalia,” he continued.
