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Geranium · May 25, 2023

Newsnight of May 24 2023 is here: BBC iPlayer - Newsnight - Singing Legend Tina Turner Dies Aged 83 (archive)

Hannah Barnes's 15-minute report on Gary Butler and GIDS:

And Gary Butler's speech at EPATH in Ireland recently:

At the start Butler makes it clear that he thinks the GIDS approach was perfectly fine (3 appointments, no exploration of other mental health problems, and off for puberty blockers prescribed by Butler & his colleagues at UCLH, with no-one keeping any records of any outcomes).

Geranium · May 25, 2023

From the headline I imagine some of you will think: "Didn't this happen months ago?" And the answer is yes, but it happened again on Monday. Reduxx found the man who doused himself in piss in public at the previous one as well, Jamie Cottle.

UK: Trans Activists Stage Piss-Filled Protest In Front of London’s Equality And Human Rights Commission - Reduxx (archive)

Reduxx said:
Trans activists in London staged a urine-filled protest outside of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on Monday in response to proposed alterations to the Equality Act which would strengthen women’s sex-based rights.

Members of the organization Pissed Off Trannies (POT) gathered outside of the EHRC on May 22 to leave 90 liters of human urine around the perimeter of the building. The protest was in response to a recent statement by chief executive of the EHRC, Melanie Field, in which she affirmed the definition of “sex.”

The statements by Field were made during an interview with Transactual, a trans activist organization headed by trans-identified male Helen Belcher. Belcher pressed Field on the definition of “biological sex,” to which Field responded it was the “sex recorded at birth.”

Field’s comment reflects a slow-moving trend at the EHRC to implement stronger protections for biological sex as a protected characteristic, as well as recent plans to prevent trans-identified males from accessing women’s facilities unless they have a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC).

GRCs are documents which legally recognize a person’s transgender identity in the United Kingdom. The bar for acquiring one is not particularly high, having two primary requirements of a gender dysphoria diagnosis, and the individual having “lived” as their “preferred gender” for at 2 years. The fee is nominal at £5, but it can be waived entirely for low-income people.

The proposals have been met with extreme backlash by trans activists, who have branded the EHRC’s attempts to consider further protections for women as “anti-trans bias.”

This Monday, masked POT trans activists gathered outside of the EHRC office to leave bottles of human urine in protest of the considerations. The activists also poured the bottles of piss on the sidewalks.

POT posted an artistic video of the demonstration to their Instagram, featuring close-up shots of the bottles of urine with audio and transcription of Field’s interview with Transactual superimposed over the scenes.

“We placed 90 liters of trans piss outside the building and in their revolving doors, rendering the EHRC more explicitly what it already was: an inaccessible mess,” Pot wrote in the description of the video.

“Pouring piss is an anarchist act of resistance that stakes an urgent and lingering claim on our basic human rights … If you take away our toilets we will make one on your doorstep.”

This is not the first time POT has staged a piss-filled protest outside of the EHRC in London.

In September of 2022, POT activists similarly left jugs of human urine around the office’s doorstep, with one masked activist pouring one bottle on himself.

While the initial exclusive coverage by VICE did not publish the names of the activists involved, allowing them to remain anonymous, it was later revealed that the primary organizer for POT is an artist who has contributed to VICE in the past.

Jamie Cottle is a trans-identified male from Reading, England, who studied English at University College London. Cottle uses the moniker “Biogal” on social media. After staging his first protest outside of the EHRC last year, Cottle boasted about his actions on Instagram.

Cottle regularly hosts disturbing “performances” he claims are demonstrations of trans activism.

In one performance from 2022, simply titled “FISH,” Cottle strips while slapping himself with a dead fish. In another from that same year, titled “Prayer for the Pearl Oyster,” Cottle is seen wearing women’s underwear, transparent platform heels, and a pearl necklace. He rips fabric, tosses about oysters, and screams while stomping on the shells. Cottle then begins writhing, strips naked, and removes a sex toy from his anus.

In addition to providing words in a VICE article on “trans joy,” last year Cottle contributed to a piece published in the Italian edition of Vogue magazine.

Titled “The Hairy Boundaries of My Womanhood,” the article asserts that “trans women and non-binary femmes” should find “new ways to express their genders through facial hair,” while drawing a parallel between “dyke movements and women with PCOS” to biological males who claim a female identity.

“When covering my moustache, I experience security from the notion of passing but deal with the dangers of catcalling,” Cottle told Vogue. “When I choose not to cover up, I signal to the world my radical position on gender and resistance to the male gaze.”

In a photo posted to his Instagram account in October 2020, Cottle can be seen licking a knife in a threatening fashion. Behind him were images of Member of Parliament Liz Truss, and a man who appears to resemble former First Secretary of State Dominic Raab. The image is titled “Target Practice.”

In a similarly menacing image, Cottle was photographed in a skin-tight dress holding a sign that reads, “The streets will flow with tranny piss and Tory blood.”

In an interview with Era Journal, the University College of London’s Arts and Culture publication, Cottle acknowledges his admiration for a US-based trans-identified male called Río Sofia, who has made bondage and forced feminization pornography of himself as part of his academic studies at Cooper Union College. In 2020, Sofia presented his self-made pornography during a lecture for Princeton University.

One of Cottle’s performances appears to have been influenced by Sofia, who, during his presentation for Princeton, boasted of stripping down to nothing but “lucite-looking heels” and exposing himself to the then-president of Cooper Union, in an attempt to spark provocation.

Cottle also recently assisted with a fundraiser for his girlfriend’s double mastectomy. Jasmine, 22, a female who identifies as a man, stated on her GoFundMe page that she was “on the GenderCare pathway” due to being “exhausted [with] having to endure my body being sexualized in a way that feels so foreign to me.”

In 2021, Cottle was a member of the Queer Heritage and Collections Network Steering Group and a listed speaker at their taxpayer-funded symposium. The symposium featured prominent UK artists sharing “knowledge, skills, expertise and best practice regarding national and regional heritage sites and collections working with LGBTQ+ histories,” and was held in partnership with the national Art Fund.

Cottle was presented as being associated with English Heritage, a major charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places in the United Kingdom.

While Cottle has put his Instagram on private, his biography does claim he will be appearing at the Tate Britain, a historic art gallery in central London, on June 10.

Do these degenerates just keep their piss in bottles? How else would you have "90 litres of trans piss" available at short notice for a demo? 90! That's almost 24 US gallons.

Snekposter · May 25, 2023

Geranium said:
From the headline I imagine some of you will think: "Didn't this happen months ago?" And the answer is yes, but it happened again on Monday. Reduxx found the man who doused himself in piss in public at the previous one as well, Jamie Cottle.

I love how these people are so crazy as to think that dunking themselves in human urine will somehow increase support for their cause instead of just turning people away because its obviously lead by crazy people.

AnOminous · May 25, 2023

Geranium said:
Do these degenerates just keep their piss in bottles? How else would you have "90 litres of trans piss" available at short notice for a demo? 90! That's almost 24 US gallons.

They're literally piss-obsessed disgusting perverted swine. They should be put against a wall.

It says a lot about these repulsive, subhuman troons that their form of "protest" is pissing and shitting themselves.

Guillotine the lot of them. What a batch of filthy subhuman degenerates.

Positron · May 25, 2023

Snekposter said:
I love how these people are so crazy as to think that dunking themselves in human urine will somehow increase support for their cause

It's a fetish silly.

Dambusters' Dog II · May 25, 2023

Geranium said:
Do these degenerates just keep their piss in bottles? How else would you have "90 litres of trans piss" available at short notice for a demo? 90! That's almost 24 US gallons.

It's an online gaming/autism/4chan thing (the exact demographic of most MTF troons these days). Here's an old example:

Geranium · May 26, 2023

British Cycling has amended its competition categories to restrict the Female category to (real) women only. An new Open category will replace the Male category, and will include men, trans-identified men, trans-identified women who have started hormone therapy (though they are reminded to comply with anti-doping rules), and "non-binary" people.

Official statement: Update: Transgender and Non-Binary Participation policies (archive)

British Cycling said:
UPDATE: TRANSGENDER AND NON-BINARY PARTICIPATION POLICIES
In April 2022, we suspended our Transgender and Non-Binary Participation Policy so that we could conduct a full review of the available medical science and carry out a targeted consultation with our communities.

We recognise the impact the suspension of our policy has had on trans and non-binary people, and we are sorry for the uncertainty and upset that many have felt during this period.

Our aim in creating our policies has always been to advance and promote equality, diversity and inclusion, while at the same time prioritising fairness of competition. This aim has not changed: it has been central to our review and we remain committed to this vital work.

The nine-month policy review was led by an internal working group, made up of a broad range of representatives from across British Cycling, Scottish Cycling and Welsh Cycling. During these nine months, the working group undertook a targeted consultation consisting of 14 focus groups and a number of one-to-one interviews (including dedicated sessions for female Race Licence holders and trans and non-binary members).

We also conducted a full medical science review, followed by an assessment of the practical changes and support needed to ensure the policy’s successful implementation. The review process was independently audited to confirm the strength of its governance and supported by external legal advice.

The review has led to two new policies being created: Policy for Competitive Activity, which relates to all British Cycling-sanctioned competitive events, and Policy for Non-Competitive Activity, which builds on the long-term commitment to inclusion set out in our equality, diversity and inclusion strategy, Our Ride.

The British Cycling Board endorsed the two new policies in April. We will provide further information on our exact implementation date to our members and event organisers in due course, and expect to have implemented both policies in full by the end of 2023.

Policy for Competitive Activity
The Policy for Competitive Activity covers all British Cycling-sanctioned competitive events. It will see the implementation of an ‘Open’ category alongside a ‘Female’ category. This means that the current men’s category will be consolidated into the ‘Open’ category.

Transgender women, transgender men, non-binary individuals and those whose sex was assigned male at birth will be eligible to compete in the ‘Open’ category. The ‘Female’ category will remain in place for those whose sex was assigned female at birth and transgender men who are yet to begin hormone therapy. At this stage, they will be eligible to compete in the ‘Open’ category only, and should ensure that they continue to adhere to the requirements of UK Anti-Doping. Those whose sex was assigned female at birth are also able to compete in the ‘Open’ category if they so wish.

Existing Race Licences held by transgender women will continue to be valid until the point at which the new policy comes into force, and we are working closely with those individuals to support their continued participation in events following the change in policy.

In the case of ‘International Events’ which are delivered in the UK on behalf of the UCI (such as the UCI Track Nations Cup), or events on the UCI calendar owned and delivered by independent organisers (such as The Women’s Tour), the UCI policy on eligibility will take precedence.

Policy for Non-Competitive Activity
The Policy for Non-Competitive Activity builds on our equality, diversity and inclusion strategy, Our Ride, and re-asserts our commitment to inclusion for trans and non-binary riders across our non-competitive activities.

This includes our Breeze programme, a women-only community programme, which will continue to remain open and inclusive for transgender women and non-binary people.

Trans and non-binary people can also continue to participate in a broad range of British Cycling activities in line with their gender identities, including: club and coach-led activities, ability based race programmes (such as Go-Race events), community programmes, Talent Development Centres and non-competitive events such as sportives.

Throughout the implementation period, we will be commencing a programme of digital improvements which will widen the gender options available to members and participants across our platforms.

British Cycling CEO, Jon Dutton, said:

“Our new policies are the product of a robust nine-month review process which we know will have a very real-world impact for our community both now and in the future. We understand that this will be particularly difficult for many of our trans and non-binary riders, and our commitment to them today is twofold.

“First, we will continue to assess our policy annually and more frequently as the medical science develops, and will continue to invite those impacted to be an integral part of those conversations. Second, we will also continue to ensure that our non-competitive activities provide a positive and welcoming environment, where everyone can feel like they belong and are respected in our community, and take action to eradicate discrimination from the sport.

“I am confident that we have developed policies that both safeguard the fairness of cyclesport competition, whilst ensuring all riders have opportunities to participate.

“We have always been very clear that this is a challenge far greater than one sport. We remain committed to listening to our communities and working with our fellow sporting bodies to monitor changes in the scientific and policy landscape, to ensure that sport is inclusive for all. We have been open and transparent with the UCI on our decision and will work collaboratively with them to ensure a seamless implementation over the coming months.

“I’d finally like to thank everyone who has supported this process over the past 12 months to ensure that we reached our decision in the right way. This includes the British Cycling, Scottish Cycling and Welsh Cycling staff in our policy working group, and those who participated in our consultation.”

We stand steadfast behind our zero-tolerance approach to harassment, bullying and discrimination, and will not hesitate to take action on any breaches of our Code of Conduct, including our zero-tolerance approach to all cases of discriminatory language or behaviour.

If you are subject to or aware of instances of such behaviour, we urge you to report them to us directly at compliance@britishcycling.org.uk where they will be handled in confidence by our dedicated team.

Further information on the two policies and our review process can be found in a comprehensive list of FAQs. We will also be providing further information for event organisers, clubs, coaches and community programme volunteers in the coming weeks, through written updates and webinars, as we move into the implementation phase.

Sex Matters has issued a statement, where they note that British Cycling still operates a policy of self-ID for its recreational programmes.
British Cycling excludes trans-identified males from competitive female cycling - Sex Matters (archive)

Sex Matters said:
British Cycling excludes trans-identified males from competitive female cycling
In April 2022, British Cycling made global news when it revoked eligibility for Emily Bridges, a Welsh trans-identified male cyclist, who was poised to make his debut in the female category. This would have been in a major-track cycling event, against one of Britain’s most decorated cyclists, Dame Laura Kenny. Emergency meetings with the international cycling federation, Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), identified that Bridges, although meeting the then-current British Cycling regulations for testosterone suppression, had not completed sufficient performance testing to fulfil UCI regulations for eligibility.

In response to a behind-the-scenes, but not exactly secret, revolt by female cyclists, British Cycling suspended its transgender policy and barred Bridges from competing in the female category, subject to further testing.

Today British Cycling has released a revised policy for the regulation of transgender athletes in cycling events, to be instituted at the end of the current competitive season.

The updated policy recognises that male development and sex matter in sport. British Cycling now mandates that all competitive cycling events – that is, all events that are timed, ranking or record-making – will be classified into ‘Open’ and ‘Female’ categories. In recreational cycling events, British Cycling recommends inclusion of trans-identified males into female categories via self-identification of gender identity.
British Cycling policy on competitive events:

“Those whose sex was assigned male at birth will be eligible to compete in the ‘Open’ category. The ‘Female’ category will remain in place for those whose sex was assigned female at birth and transgender men who are yet to begin hormone therapy.”

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Sex Matters welcomes this new policy, which protects the core sporting value of fairness for competitive female cycling. The proposal to introduce an ‘Open’ category to replace and rename the male category means that there is an inclusive category, with no need to declare one’s “gender identity”, for anyone who wants to race in it. Trans-identified males are not excluded from competitive cycling in any way. The Female/Open categorisation is a simple and straightforward solution that delivers both fairness and inclusion.

At a global level, cycling has been a strong advocate of testosterone suppression as a way to allow the inclusion of trans-identified males in the female category. In contrast, other sports such as swimming and triathlon have already recognised that this approach is discredited. Sex Matters’ response to a British Cycling consultation highlighted the flaws with this approach.

Sex Matters board member Emma Hilton says:

“The gap between male and female cycling performance, across all cycling disciplines and assessed by race times and power metrics, is large. Cycling is, in all forms, from BMX racing to the Tour de France, a sex-affected sport, and testosterone suppression does not remove or render negligible the male athletic advantage acquired during male development. Sex matters in cycling.”

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Jon Pike is a senior lecturer in philosophy at the Open University and a member of the Sex Matters advisory group. He adds:

“This policy from British Cycling is the first big crack in the cycling world. British Cycling has also, sensibly, ignored the incoherent International Olympic Committee ‘Framework’. Credit is due to British Cycling for looking at the science, and listening to female cyclists.”

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Cathy Devine is a sports policy researcher and also a member of the Sex Matters advisory group. She has fought for female athlete voices to be heard in this debate. She is “delighted that British Cycling has decided to uphold equal opportunities for our female riders”.

However, Sex Matters is disappointed that British Cycling’s new policy does not argue for fairness for female cyclists at the recreational level, where the regulations will be inclusion via gender self-identification. Cycling is a mass-participation sport, and there are plenty of non-competitive opportunities for trans-identified males to get on their bikes. But is unfairness for recreational females now an acceptable compromise for sports federations wrestling with this question? We say it is not.

Mara Yamauchi is an Olympic marathon runner and member of the Sex Matters advisory group. Leaning on her experience of a very long road to marathon success, she is a vocal supporter of fairness in grassroots sport and in the developmental pathway to elite level.

“I applaud British Cycling for adopting female and open categories in competition,” she says. “But it is disappointing that it has chosen self-ID at the recreational level. It breaks the development pathway from beginner to elite. Where does British Cycling think Britain’s elite female cyclists of the future will come from? Female cyclists at all levels and all ages deserve fair and safe competition in the female category, without males.”

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At Sex Matters, we remain concerned about recreational cycling like the Breeze initiative for women to get back in the saddle and enjoy some non-judgmental female camaraderie. Advertised as women-only, and with smiling pictures of female cyclists in countryside locations, Breeze rides will remain inclusive of trans-identified males, although this is not evident on the Breeze website. With an unaccompanied age threshold of 16 years old, BC has left unaddressed a clear safeguarding risk for women and girls, who may believe they are joining a female-only cycling group that in fact admits males – who may not only join, but may also be the only other rider or instructor on a given ride.

British Cycling should either insist that Breeze rides exclude all males, however they identify, or at the very least ensure that women and girls have all the information they need to make an informed choice and state clearly and publicly that Breeze rides may be mixed-sex.

This victory for British female cycling is to be celebrated, and we commend British Cycling for its commitment to female athletes. But the global picture is still bleak. Internationally, UCI policy permits trans-identified males to compete in female categories under conditions of testosterone suppression, allowing novice males like Austin Killips in the United States to sweep to victory in female UCI events and force female cyclists like Hannah Arensman to abandon their beloved sport. In response to the shocking number of trans-identified males now entering female cycling (Twitter user @i_heart__bikes has compiled a list), UCI has flipped hastily between stubborn defence of its policy to the promise of a new one in August 2023.

As Jon Pike and Cathy Devine note:

“We now need UCI to follow suit and mandate dedicated female categories for female riders worldwide. And both UCI and the International Olympic Committee will need to reflect on why they got this so wrong for female athletes for so long.”

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The trannies are upset:

@Mermaids_Gender, tweet 1662047099196678144 (archive)

Mermaids (@Mermaids_Gender) · May 26, 2023 · 10:44 AM UTC
Mermaids is extremely disappointed by British Cyclings’ new cruel and exclusionary transgender guidance which will see much fewer trans athletes be able to compete in their sport. As a youth organisation we see what these top-down policies mean for the daily lives of trans youth

Naturally it's complete nonsense. No-one's being excluded from competing, but men don't get to decide to compete against women. "Cruel", lol.

East_Clintwood · May 30, 2023

John Cleese currently trending on Twatter over a story about refusing to cut the tranny mocking scene from a potential stage adaptation of the movie Life of Brian:

https://archive.is/3kpqB

Monty Python star John Cleese has expressed disdain for modern sensibilities and “PC culture” on several occasions in recent years. The comedian found a new battleground for those convictions by claiming that his plans to mount a stage adaptation of the 1979 comedy “Life of Brian” have been “misreported” by the Daily Mail (in a now amended article), particularly in regards to the potential decision to revive a controversial scene involving a transgender character.
Cleese shared his thoughts in a series of unthreaded posts on Twitter last Thursday.
“A few days ago I spoke to an audience outside London. I told them I was adapting the ‘Life of Brian’ so that we could do it as a stage show (NOT a musical). I said that we’d had a table-reading of the latest draft in NYC a year ago,” Cleese wrote. “All the actors — several of them Tony winners — had advised me strongly to cut the Loretta scene. I have, of course, no intention of doing so.”

In the original film, the scene features a character played by Python member Eric Idle who asks to be called Loretta and voices a longing to bear a child. Cleese’s character in the scene dismisses the request as “ridiculous.”
“These were absolutely top-class Broadway performers and they were adamant that we would not get away with doing the scene in NYC!” Cleese continued. “Producers tend to be scaredy-cats, and they don’t remember that the protests in NYC when ‘Brian’ was released meant we never needed to do publicity!!”
Cleese received criticism from members and allies of the LGBTQ+ community in 2020 when he defended “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling, who has stated that transgender individuals are “erasing the concept of sex.” Cleese expressed support for Rowling, saying that he was “not that interested in trans folks.”

The scene in question for those who've never seen it:

AnOminous · May 30, 2023

East_Clintwood said:
The scene in question for those who've never seen it:

I will never cease to admire John Cleese's dedication to teh funneh, regardless of what humorless faggots think about it.

ScooterL · May 30, 2023

Geranium said:
How else would you have "90 litres of trans piss" available at short notice for a demo?

Presumably, these vermin have been hoarding their own piss since the last stunt in September.

Thanks to a few brave trannies, we now know the answer to the question "how long does it take to save ninety liters of urine"? Eight months.

Geranium · May 30, 2023

ScooterL said:
Presumably, these vermin have been hoarding their own piss since the last stunt in September.

Honestly I think they probably had it already knocking around to satisfy their paraphilias.

AnOminous · May 30, 2023

Geranium said:
Do these degenerates just keep their piss in bottles? How else would you have "90 litres of trans piss" available at short notice for a demo? 90! That's almost 24 US gallons.

And they wonder why actual humans find them absolutely repulsive and vile beyond belief.

Elwood P. Dowd · Jun 2, 2023

Memoir for sale everywhere June 6....

Stunning Revelations from Elliot Page Memoir: Secret Kate Mara Romance, Verbal Assault from A-Lister (Exclusive)

https://archive.ph/wip/Pe904

The 'Umbrella Academy' star and 'Juno' Oscar nominee exclusively talks to PEOPLE about his forthcoming memoir, 'Pageboy'
Updated on June 2, 2023 11:17 AM
When Elliot Page sits down to discuss his memoir, he’s smiling.
It’s been a journey — to say the least — to get to this point. A child star in Canada, Page first arrived into the American conscience with Juno in 2007, for which he received an Oscar nomination. His subsequent films — which included Inception (2010) and Whip It (2009) — and TV career (he’ll soon star in the final season of Netflix's The Umbrella Academy) has made him a favorite of Hollywood. But along the way, Page — as he writes in his new memoir Pageboy — would struggle to find his identity and his place in Hollywood. Page publicly came out as gay in 2014 and as trans in December of 2020.
Now 36, Page can’t stop smiling. “Today I definitely feel a way that I never thought I would get to feel,” he tells PEOPLE exclusively. “I think that mostly manifests in how present I feel. The sort of ease and the ability to exist. There's been periods in my life where I really felt like I wasn't. We talk about trans joy and euphoria and all of those things and so much of it is in the stillness. I just feel so lucky.”
Elliot Page/Instagram

Here are five revelations from Page’s new memoir, which is out on June 6.
He was verbally assaulted at a party by an A-list actor two months after he came out
In a chapter titled “Famous A--hole at Party,” Page describes being at a birthday party in Los Angeles in 2014. An actor, whom Page describes as an “acquaintance,” told Page that "you aren't gay. That doesn’t exist. You are just afraid of men.” He then told Page: “I’m going to f—k you to make you realize you aren’t gay.” They saw each other at the gym a few days later. The actor said, “I don’t have a problem with gay people I swear.”
“I think you might,” Page told him.
“I've had some version of that happen many times throughout my life. A lot of queer and trans people deal with it incessantly. These moments that we often like don't talk about or we're supposed to just brush off, when actually it's very awful. I put that story in the book because it’s about highlighting the reality, the s--t we deal with and what gets sent to us constantly, particularly in environments that are predominantly cis and heterosexual. How we navigate that world where you either have more extreme, overt moments like that. Or you have the more, like, subtle jokes. [In Hollywood] these are very powerful people. They're the ones choosing what stories are being told and creating content for people to see all around the world."
“I’m purposely not sharing his name,” Page says, noting that many people at the party saw and heard what happened. “But he will hear about this and know it’s him.”
Liam Woods
He had a relationship with Kate Mara
"The first person I fell for after my heart was broken was Kate Mara," Page writes. "She had a boyfriend at the time, the lovely and talented Max Minghella."
Page goes on to describe their romance, during which Page was filming 2014's X-Men: Days of Future Past. (“Kate has read the book,” Page says. Mara is appearing with Page at a book event in Los Angeles in June.) Page writes that Minghella was supportive of Mara exploring her feelings for Page. “I never thought I could be in love with two people and now I know I can,” Page says Mara told him.
“This was right after I’d come out as gay and it was a time of exploration and also heartbreak,” Page says. “I think my relationship, or whatever you want to call it with Kate, very much encapsulates a certain dynamic that I consistently found myself in, which was falling for people that — I think a lot of us do this — who aren't fully available. And the sort of safety in that and the highs and the lows and the serotonin bump, and then it goes away."
"And I think that is definitely a pattern in my life,” he adds. Page says he and Mara are still close. “I think the love and care that we have for each other is it's very own special thing. Separate from the intimacy that I write about.”
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Liam Woods
His inspiring friendships with Catherine Keener, Kristin Wiig, and Alia Shawkat helped save him
“We all love Catherine Keener, of course. Catherine I've known since I was 19, and she's been one of the most important people in my life. Not only when we were working together on a film we were shooting when I was 19, called An American Crime. But later, when I was back in Los Angeles during the whole sort of Juno awards season time — which was overwhelming to say the least — she let me live with her. She has been someone that I could rely on and go to without question. Since I've met her, she's one of the closest people to me in my life. And one of those people who you don't really know who you'd be without.”
Page writes that he was having issues while filming Whip It and costars Wiig and Shawkat were there for him. “Kristen, who, actually I first met on SNL but on Whip It properly, is also someone who at very difficult, challenging moments in my life just showed up. Although it was not surprising because she's an incredible person. Alia has also been a person in my life who, like Kristen, just always encouraged me to be my authentic self. Encouraged me to go against the forces that were telling me to not be. So just true, grounded, sincere people who were very just selfless and kind and loving friends.”
He reveals his admiration for Michael Cera, whom he once watched sleep on a plane
“How could he be so relaxed?” Page writes in his memoir, of watching Cera sleep on a plane (they flew to Los Angeles together to audition for Juno). “I used to look at people and wonder how they were so comfortable. Don't get me wrong. And it's not even about being happy or not, but I just would watch people just sort of exist. I remember an ex, I'd be like, ‘What do you do when you wake up in the morning?’ I didn't really actually understand how people just got in their car and went to get groceries or I didn't understand. I actually didn't understand. And I just thought I was always going to feel that way and that I'd be this sort of annoying person. I'm sure people around me were kind of like, ‘What is his deal? He can't get his s--t together.’ And now here I am. And it's so unfortunate that it bothers people so much. It's so unfortunate that people for whatever reason want to take that away from trans people. I just don't understand.”
He had a painful relationship for two years with a closeted female costar he won’t name
Page acknowledges the person he calls “Ryan” worked with him in a movie, and describes secretly holding hands on set, but pretending to be friends elsewhere in public. He says they were trailed by paparazzi, would leave hotels from different doors, and not look at each other in public. Or at parties. “Some of my friends didn’t even know I was in a relationship,” Page says.
Liam Woods
“Ultimately, I do think she loved me. We loved each other and that was very real in our bubble. It was fantastic. You know, it was really beautiful. I admired about her and how she inspired me in many ways. But feeling hidden was far too painful. That was impossible and not a sustainable relationship at all. And it taught me that I was not gonna do that again.”
Page realizes that a hidden relationship between two LGBTQ+ costars might sound a bit 1950s, that many might ask, "Oh, that thing still goes on today?"
“Hell yeah, it does,” he says.
“Some of my closest friends didn't even know I was in a relationship. And I was in a relationship where we were in a relationship for a decent amount of time. I mean, that is next level.”

A bit older, but relevant: Troon memoirs (troonoirs?) apparently pay quite well, too:

Elliot Page ‘Pageboy’ Memoir Deal Exceeds $3 Million

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EXCLUSIVE

: His reps declined to comment, but word in publishing circles is that Elliot Page’s memoir Pageboy sold to Flatiron Books for north of $3 million. The deal was made based on a 49-page proposal shopped by UTA.

Deadline read the document, and it sounds like Page has a truly compelling story to tell about a long struggle to find himself amidst a torrent of homophobic hatred, not only in his hometown of Halifax, Nova Scotia but also in Hollywood where Page first came to fame as an Oscar nominee for Juno. Before he transitioned, Page describes numerous occasions where he was set upon by homophobic bullies, with few willing to help. A beer thrown in Toronto, a menacing loudmouth chasing Page into a restaurant in Hollywood, this was something that happened often to the diminutive Page. The loathsome industry people in Hollywood weren’t named, but there was the male film director who tried to seduce Page at age 16; and the time that a big movie star — who would later say he was ossified and blacked out in a clumsy apology — berated Page at a party in an outrageous homophobic rant.

This latter was just after Page had come out as queer, and the actor accused Page’s bold announcement of being false in a torrent that grew louder and more graphic. But nobody in the room, even Page’s closest friends, stood up for their friend. It was unclear if they were shocked, or afraid to say anything because the actor was one of the biggest stars in town.

Page’s willingness to be honest about the conflicting emotions, starting with shame, that kept him from realizing who he really was, has the makings of an important book for others who face the same abuse and difficult life decisions. Some in publishing circles were surprised by how much Flatiron paid, but that will incentivize the publisher to making sure the book gets proper promotion to get The Umbrella Academy star’s story to the widest audience possible.

Pageboy will be published in 2023, and could be something groundbreaking not only about transgender identity, but about courage in the face of adversity.

I guess $3 million might be enough to turn someone from cute female to incel manlet? Curious how the publisher makes a profit off a title like this, assuming the advance figure is correct.

teriyakiburns · Jun 2, 2023

Elwood P. Dowd said:

Such masculine poses that are definitely not a small woman trying emulate a 90s heartthrob movie star.

(Seriously, it's like she's trying to be kevin bacon, or brad pitt, or something)

Super Guido · Jun 2, 2023

teriyakiburns said:
Such masculine poses that are definitely not a small woman trying emulate a 90s heartthrob movie star.

(Seriously, it's like she's trying to be kevin bacon, or brad pitt, or something)

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She looks dirty. Did she roll in dirt because she thought it was more manly or something?

WonderWino · Jun 2, 2023

AnOminous said:
They're literally piss-obsessed disgusting perverted swine. They should be put against a wall.

It says a lot about these repulsive, subhuman troons that their form of "protest" is pissing and shitting themselves.

Guillotine the lot of them. What a batch of filthy subhuman degenerates.

Just wait until they start protesting with piss like this:

Just replace the shitty armor ricky and everyone else is wearing with shitty cosplay troon anime armor

ScooterL said:
Presumably, these vermin have been hoarding their own piss since the last stunt in September.

Thanks to a few brave trannies, we now know the answer to the question "how long does it take to save ninety liters of urine"? Eight months.

Perhaps they skulk around piss jug alley behind the kids gender surgery clinics and mental hospitals to gather up the oldest half dehydrated piss jugs they can find

I'll also point out that ellen page was on trailer park boys for awhile. Given she trooned out and all this piss stuff.....take that as you will

Really makes you think

Snekposter · Jun 3, 2023

Oh God, that cover image for People has something worse than dead eyes. Page's eyes are actively screaming in pain there.

ロボ﹏§¤r﹏h¶rœ · Jun 9, 2023

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Washington judge orders female-only spa with compulsory nudity to admit transgender women with penises, after owner said facility was for 'biological women only' and pre-op trans activist complained