'Them' Has a Message About Ellen Page for Us 'Transphobes'

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While Universal scrambles to copyright claim leaked images of Ellen Page's embarrassing turn in 'The Odyssey,' the Christopher Nolan flick that's hitting theaters today, it's clear there's a political agenda behind the casting of Page as a Greek warrior.

Last year, the Academy nominated Karla Sofia Gascón, a man pretending to be a woman, in the 'Best Actress' category for the weird pro-trans musical 'Emilia Perez.' That push was torpedoed not because of outcry about giving a man the 'Best Actress' nod (although I don't doubt his fellow nominees were displeased), but because Gascón's social media history resurfaced and bit him on the butt. Gascón's 'thought crimes' included criticizing Muslims, George Floyd, and diversity at the Oscars. In one post, he wrote, "I’m Sorry, Is it just my impression or is there more muslims in Spain? Every time I go to pick up my daughter from school there are more women with their hair covered and their skirts down to their heels. Next year instead of English we’ll have to teach Arabic."

Whoops.

Anyway, the Academy decided it just couldn't give the Oscar to someone who said bluntly honest things that most of us agree with, and the award instead went to Mikey Madison for her role in 'Anora.'

But they really, really want the optics of a trans person on stage, sticking it to President Trump and those mean old Republicans, and that's why Page is suddenly a thing.

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And any criticism of her is dismissed as transphobia. Them, a website devoted to trans issues, it seems, jumped on that bandwagon, telling us 'transphobes' Page is three things we will never be: 'happy, in a hit movie, with a girlfriend.'

Sure, she really looks happy.

Absolutely happy.

Notice what they didn't say, though. Aside from being happy and having a significant other, Page and I have one more thing in common: we will never be men.

In every interview, Page looks tortured, uncomfortable, and unsure. That video of her in the rust-brown suit, absolutely dwarfed by security, made the rounds on X a week or two ago. She doesn't look remotely like she has any idea what to do with her body, which has been pumped full of wrong-sex hormones and mutilated.

Ellen Page was a beautiful woman and a talented actress.

Something happened to her. What? I don't know, and we probably never will. But whatever trauma it was, instead of getting the help she needed, she morphed into a facsimile of a man. She needed to step out of the public eye, get intensive therapy, and the gender affirmation she needed was that she was, in fact, a woman and a lesbian.

There's no going back to who she used to be now, even if she changes her mind.

It is cruel, and the truth is, Page probably won't change her mind. She's now promoting nonsense theories that the gender binary—which humankind has acknowledged as our default for millennia—is a nonsense social construct. That's coping if I've ever seen it. Here's further evidence it's cope: Page's proof? Bonobo monkeys.

Except we're not monkeys. We're human beings. Animals in the wild do abhorrent things all the time. They eat one another, they eat their young, they eat their waste. Just because animals do it doesn't mean it's good behavior for humans to emulate. We're supposed to have evolved beyond that.

But the Left plays the long game on this, and their goal is to elevate some trans person, any trans person, in the era of Trump so they can, or think they can, stick it to him. They'll say and do whatever it takes to achieve those ends. Even if it means publicly humiliating one of their own. And that's what this is, ultimately, a public humiliation of a very troubled woman who tried to address her demons by becoming a man.

Except no one, not even Page, not even her girlfriend, is buying that twisted reality. That doesn't make us transphobes; that makes us honest. And setting aside the fact that 'transphobes' do not exist anyway, and that the slur holds no influence over any of us, if you have to tell someone you're happy, odds are you're not.