The Canadian star of "Juno" and "Inception", until then known as Ellen Page, announced Tuesday that she is transgender and is now called Elliot Page.
For child psychiatrist Agnès Cordat, it is important that "personalities come out in a positive way" to advance the cause of transgender people.
It's a coming out that makes a lot of talk: Elliot Page, until now known as Ellen Page, North American film revelation in 2007 in
Juno
, announced Tuesday on the various social networks that he was a transgender person.
The star of the Netflix series
The Umbrella Academy
has published a lengthy text in which she claims that the pronoun to use for is "he or he".
So far, public entertainment personalities who have declared themselves to be transgender are rare, such as Laverne Cox, from the series
Orange is the New Black
, or the American actress Caitlyn Jenner.
The transition, "a blooming"
For Agnès Cordat, child psychiatrist at Pitié-Salpêtrière, the more well-known people will speak on this subject, the more transgender people will be considered: "It is important that there is more visibility, that there are also personalities who come out in a positive way, "said the specialist at the microphone of Europe 1." What I see with the young people I take care of is that the social, medical and / or surgical transition is a development of the person. "
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But in his text, Elliot Page also evokes his fears in the face of the difficulties of being transgender today, which would concern approximately 15,000 people in France.
The actor recalls the higher than average suicidal urges among trans people and, above all, acts of violence.
According to a report by SOS Homophobia, testimonies of attacks against transgender people in France have increased by 130% in one year.