Elliot Pageis radiating summer joy.
“Trans bb’s first swim trunks,” Pagewrote, adding the hashtags#transjoy#transisbeautiful.
The shot is the first shirtless one Page has posted on Instagram since having top surgery, a procedure he previously revealed he underwent earlier this year. Top surgery for transgender men is a surgical procedure to remove your breast tissue (subcutaneous mastectomy).
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“I wanted to talk about it for a couple of reasons,” Page told Winfrey. “I wanted to share with people just how much it has changed my life. And I want people to know that not only has it been life changing for me, I do believe it is life saving and it’s the case for so many people… and because there is such an attack on trans health care right now, when already there is such a lack of access or trans people who don’t even want to go to the doctor.”
Page publiclycame out as a transgender man in December. In March, he gave his first interview since going public, tellingTIMEhe grew up feeling “like a boy” from an early age but having “to look a certain way” in terms of his acting career, starting at age 10.
In an interview withVanity Fair, Page said he feels “joy and excitement” at getting to be his authentic self.
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Since coming forward with his truth, Page said “the most significant difference” between his life then and his life now has been that he is “really able to just exist.”
source: people.com
