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Respecting Elliot Page Hurts Exactly Nobody
An open letter to offended people
Dear offended human,
Elliot Page being a trans man does not hurt you in any way. Why does it bother you? Stop being small minded and closed off from ideas outside your own experience. The world is a large place, and there is room for everyone to live within it, and pursue their own version of happiness. There is room for literally a limitless variety of perspectives.
Elliot Page isn’t asking you to stop being you. He is asking you to let him be him.
It’s that easy. Why are you trying to make it difficult? Why do you care about how another person wants to be identified? Why are you so opposed to letting someone else be comfortable in their own existence? How does their comfort cause you discomfort in any way?
The answer is, it doesn’t.
What? You want to make an argument about biology now? About biological identity? As if that should really factor into it? All you are doing is putting a faux scientific consideration over the skull of your own inconsiderate and immovable psychological framework. Elliot Page isn’t asking you to change your understanding of biology. Elliot Page isn’t asking you to change your own biology. Elliot Page merely wants to be treated with respect and considered his…
