Elliot Web page shares 'largest pleasure' about transitioning in private essay

"Bullying places you in a spot the place, later, you could have a lot unlearning to do," he wrote. "For those who're getting teased and made enjoyable of and referred to as names every day, there is no manner that is not going to get within you—notably if you're already feeling a lot disgrace."

He stated he did not anticipate the response to his transition "to be so massive."

"When it comes to the precise high quality of the response, it was what I anticipated: love and assist from many individuals and hatred and cruelty and vitriol from so many others," he wrote. "I got here out as homosexual in 2014, and it is totally different. Transphobia is simply so, so, so excessive. The hatred and the cruelty is a lot extra incessant."

However Web page is very happy with who he's.

"The best pleasure is simply with the ability to really feel current, actually, simply to be current," he wrote. "To exit in a gaggle of recent individuals and be capable to have interaction in a manner the place I did not really feel this fixed sensation to flee from my physique, this unending sensation of tension and nervousness and wanting out."