In his first broadcast interview since coming out as transgender in December last year, American actor Elliot Page has told Oprah about the joy he’s experienced in being able to live authentically.
He also highlighted the plight of the transgender community and the challenges they still face. Following Page’s first interview on the subject of his coming out in TIME magazine earlier this year, and another with Vanity Fair, the Umbrella Academy star sat down with the world’s most famous talk show host to open up about what it has been like for him since coming out.
Speaking with Oprah, Page called having top surgery, which he first mentioned in the TIME interview, “life-changing”, highlighting that he wanted to talk about it because he