“So here I am, writing to you, both full of gratitude and terrified,” reads the opening lines of the book. Grateful to be able to write this life story, but terrified to open up to the whole world about his most intimate experience, Elliot Page is a Canadian actor born in Nova Scotia in 1987 who made his coming out as a non-binary trans person in 2020 after several years of experiencing anxiety and general malaise. This autobiography bluntly and often very bluntly illustrates the ordeals he had to overcome to become who he always knew he was. Transphobia, homophobia, verbal, physical and sexual aggression — all in a Hollywood bathed in hypocrisy — the experiences follow one another at a disturbing and unimaginable pace, without painting a portrait of a person who feels sorry for himself. his fate. A panoply of anecdotes punctuate the story (such as his love for the film AND and the story of the Halifax Explosion) well written both for those who aspire to better understand the reality of a transidentity and for those who experience it.
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