Elliot Page: Effects of LGBTQ rights being ‘revoked’ is ‘devastating’

Elliot Page is speaking out about the “devastating” effects of LGBTQ rights being “revoked, restricted and eliminated throughout the world.”

The “Umbrella Academy” star, who came out as transgender in 2020, appeared Sunday at the Juno Awards in Canada to honor Tegan and Sara with a humanitarian award for their foundation’s “commitment to building progressive, social change” for the LGBTQ community.

Page described the duo as “icons of Canadian music” who are “devoted and tenacious changemakers for a community we should all be fighting for.”

“We are at a time in history where the rights of [two-spirit,] LGBTQ+ people are being revoked, restricted and eliminated throughout the world, and the effects of which are devastating,” he told the audience.

Page lauded Tegan and Sara’s eponymous foundation for funding initiatives for LGBTQ young people, including “health care access, educational programming and summer camps for two-spirit, trans and queer youth.”

It’s not the first time that the 37-year-old Academy Award-nominated performer has criticized anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and legislation.

“There are people in elected office saying that, essentially, transgender people are going to be responsible for the end of existence,” he wrote in a 2022 Esquire essay.

“That degree of rhetoric is really alarming and horrible,” Page said.

Page was also one of several entertainers who appeared in a video produced by Teen Vogue and the LGBTQ magazine Them last year that criticized anti-transgender legislation introduced across the country.

According to the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy organization, more than 100 bills targeting transgender health care were under consideration in at least half the U.S. last year.

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