As soon as Ellen decides that she is 'Elliot', commentators and enablers of this transgender rubbish start calling her he/him. But, putting the nonsense aside, Ellen is still Ellen and the female she was born. We can't stop cranks being cranks, but we don't have to encourage them. A big yawn and indifference to the posturing and attention seeking is the way to go. There is more than enough serious stuff going on in the world to drown out sad nutters.

So what's her DNA say ?

Frankly, I don't care if people who love their dogs, want to call themselves Fido or Spot. Who the hell else has to care about how a person described him/herself ? Why should they HAVE to care ?

If people want to dress up, that's their business, not necessarily anybody else's. If they want to change their name, that's their business.

Provided it's not hurting anybody, do what you like. BUT nobody else has to give a stuff.

Joe

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*... There is more than enough serious stuff going on in the world to drown out sad nutters....*

Unfortunately though, our sad world in the West is increasingly ruled by these psychotic wealthy nut cases.

And can we afford to yawn at it, as each identifiable step backwards, is but another large step forward for China domination of what’ remains of the West.

Dan

You believe you have any right to pry into something as deeply personal as this!?

To put it bluntly, it is none of your effing business A-hole!

And has absolutely no detrimental effect on your life, liberty, freedom and human rights whatsoever!

Stop with the barely veiled attempt at persecution and go get a life of your own!

Do you think men kissing men is socially unacceptable? Well, take that one up with Mister Putin and Rusia where, like in many other places in this world, it is common practice! Butt out A-hole! You know SFA!
Alan B.

And Joe has totally missed the point.

*... BUT nobody else has to give a stuff....*

And the point is, we the onlookers, do give a stuff with transgender identity neuroses when it impacts on us through law changes which cement this crap onto societies rules which punish the opposition.

Dan

Too much make believe in the entertainment industries leads to too many from the industry having make believe lives in their private lives.

But more importantly, who the hell cares. For some of us it is who the hell is Ellen/Elliot anyway.

Hi Diver Dan,

I'm dreadfully sorry, but I think you missed the point - that nobody SHOULD have to give a stuff. There shouldn't be any laws compelling anybody to defer to someone else's idiocies. including this silly girl's.

Joe

More power to Elliott Page say I and without reservation.

The film/movie Hard Candy is one of my favorite films, along with the wickedly funny film/movie Unbound starring Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon.

The Hard Candy misogynist creep gets his necessary karmic comeuppance - even voluntarily!

Meanwhile the average American well-adjusted child sees 4000 murders on TV by the time they have finished elementary school, and 18,000 by the time they are 18.
Many/most boys and teenagers spend many hours playing violence saturated video games many of which are deeply and violently misogynistic. They also have easy access to deeply misogynist pornography.

Even the dominant religious cult, namely christian-ism celebrates the brutal torture and murder of the loving God-Man as "good news"

In dreadfully sane christian America all of this seems to be perfectly normal and yet when someone (especially someone who identified as a woman) decides to "come out" as it were the entire moral order of American culture is supposedly going to collapse.

Duck,

Good luck to them, whatever they choose, but they can't expect anybody else to give a toss.

Joe

I'd like to ANNOUNCE that I'm a MAN coming out as a MAN.

To paraphrase http://www.smh.com.au/culture/celebrity/actor-formerly-known-as-ellen-page-announces-he-is-transgender-20201202-p56jqz.html

"I am NOT inspired by the Gender community and DON'T thank all"

"I love that I am STILL the same," I DON'T write.

"And I love that I am NOT queer. And the more I hold ONTO MY EQUIPMENT and fully embrace who I am

the more I will do for the world to remain the SAME for MEN who REMAIN MEN and WOMEN

who REMAIN WOMEN and UNaturally

SPERMaphrodites."

For me, the author has not quite the right point of attack.

To be sure, the piety and revisionism of the trans lobby is entirely fair game. Being trans is not a declaration of some special insight or wisdom.

Bruce Jenner was the most annoying bloke at Montreal Olympics. Caitlyn Jenner is just as irritating. Australia has similar examples - notably a certain cricket tragic.

Nevertheless, being trans is a real thing. Page would not have done what he's done, just for fun. Also, as far as we know, he does not seem to have been totally insensitive to the resounding impact on family and friends.

The whole issue of gender dysphoria has got out of control with Chairman Dan now making it illegal to even discuss the problems with giving underage children hormone blockers.

https://youtu.be/p5HhOvxvCek

Elliot Page deserves to receive an Oscar for every one of his previous roles for having played a women so very believably.