Elliot Page has shared he has known since the age of four that he was a boy.
The 36-year-old Umbrella Academy actor came out as transgender in December 2020 and remains Hollywood’s most high-profile trans star.
On Tuesday (June 6), Page’s memoir – titled Pageboy – was released, and it contains a number of secret confessions about the actor’s love life as well as further details on his coming out.
The Juno star said he knew from a very early age, while he was growing up in Nova Scotia, Canada, that he was a boy.
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Recounting a date he had been on in Manhattan with a woman named Sara, he shared how Sara asked him: “When did you know?”
Per the Daily Mail, Page writes: “I knew when I was four years old. I went to the YMCA preschool in downtown Halifax, on South Park Street across from the Public Gardens.
“Primarily, I understood that I wasn’t a girl. Not in a conscious sense, but in a pure sense, uncontaminated. That sensation is one of my earliest and clearest memories.”
Page also shared how he attempted to urinate standing up, deciding that it felt more natural.
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Page asked his mother, Martha Philpotts, a public school English and French teacher, at the age of six if he could be a boy.
She responded: “No hon, you can’t, you’re a girl. But you can do anything a boy can do.”
He said his heart was “aflutter for Sandra Bullock, my eight-year-old self not comprehending that I once again had a crush.”
The actor continued: “Twenty years later I would have dinner with my friend Catherine Keener and Sandra at the famous Craig’s in Beverly Hills. Sandra looked so cool, in jeans and a hip rocker T. She was nice, funny and grounded, just as my eight-year-old self had imagined. Oh, these strange roads we travel.”
