Ian McKellen ‘so happy’ for Elliot Page after transgender reveal

Ruby Rose has replaced Elliot Page in the upcoming esports comedy 1Up, currently in production in Toronto, Canada.

Juno star Elliot Page has reportedly filed for divorce from his wife Emma Portner, after coming out as transgender in December.The actor, 33, is said to have filed legal documents in Manhattan to seek the dissolution of his marriage to Canadian professional dancer Emma, 26, three years after the pair tied the knot in January 2018, TMZ has reported.

Earlier today, it was revealed that Elliot Page and Emma Portner are divorcing. Now, they have released a statement and actually revealed that they have been separated since the summer of 2020.

< 1 min read US President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order on Monday that will lift the Pentagon’s ban on transgender people serving in the military.

dating back to 2015 has shown that gender-affirming medical interventions, such as hormones or surgery, lowers the incidence of suicidal ideation among transgender teens.

not include surgical intervention.The bill explicitly states that people under 21 should be barred from receiving gender-affirming care because they “are incapable of comprehending the negative implications and life-altering difficulties” of their decisions.But the bill goes further, punishing providers who even attempt to diagnose a minor with gender dysphoria, unless they have express permission from the minor’s parents to broach the subject, and effectively requiring doctors to “out” minor

not include surgical intervention.The bill explicitly states that people under 21 should be barred from receiving gender-affirming care because they “are incapable of comprehending the negative implications and life-altering difficulties” of their decisions.

Just ahead of his inauguration, President-elect Joe Biden announced he will be appointing Dr. Rachel Levine to the position of assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Dr. Levine would be the first out transgender person appointed to a federal position, should she be approved by the U.S. Senate.

The incoming US President-elect Joe Biden’s administration is by any measure a historic one when it comes to diversity. Now, in another momentous decision, Biden on Tuesday nominated Pennsylvania Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine as his pick for Assistant Health Secretary. Dr Levine – paediatrician and former Pennsylvania physician general – will become the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the US Senate and the highest ranked transgender official in the country. Dr.

2 min read Just a few weeks into 2021 at least 10 anti-transgender bills have been introduced across seven different states by Republican lawmakers. According to reports, the majority of the Republican-sponsored bills target gender-affirming healthcare and trans youth, including redefining “child abuse” to include parents who support their trans kids.

McIver’s Ladies Baths in Coogee updated their website on Monday after being called out for an exclusionary statement about transgender women.The original text read: “Only transgender women who’ve undergone a gender reassignment surgery are allowed entry. Please contact us for further information if required.”The updated text is less direct: “Yes.

Sir Ian McKellen has said he is “so happy” for Elliot Page after the actor’s announcement in December that he is transgender. The veteran star of stage and screen added that he felt “so disappointed” with himself for not recognising the struggles the then-teenage actor must have been grappling with around their identity when they worked together.

X Men star and Hollywood veteran Ian McKellen recently opened up about his co-star Elliot Page coming out as transgender. For the unversed, Ian and Elliot have starred together in X-Men: The Last Stand, as Magneto and Kitty Pryde.

the actor’s announcement that he is transgender.The veteran actor voiced his support for Page, who he starred opposite in 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand.McKellen said he’s “so disappointed” in himself for not realising Page was struggling with their identity on set, he revealed in a new interview with Attitude.“Everything gets better [when you come out] because you get self-confidence,” McKellen explained.

Ian McKellen is fully behind Elliot Page.

with Attitude Magazine, McKellen said that in his experience as an actor who’s been openly gay since the 1980s, “Everything gets better [when you come out because you get self-confidence]. You get better in terms of relationships, friends of all sorts, family, if you’re lucky.

New York magazine writer and former New Republic editor made the claim in a column titled, “Where have all the lesbians gone?” for conservative magazine The Spectator.In the column, Sullivan complains that lesbians won’t be able to “take care of [gay men] when we get sick” and argues that tomboyish lesbian teens are “being told that whatever obstacles [they] may encounter…can be resolved through male hormones.”“I miss lesbians,” he writes.