As fans speculate about casting decisions for Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated summer blockbuster, “The Odyssey,” the Academy Award-winning director is keeping details under wraps other than to say it’s going to be comparable to a Marvel franchise.
Nolan appeared on Monday night’s episode of “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert to discuss some aspects of the project. He said the poet Homer, who is credited with writing “The Odyssey,” created the basis upon which all superhero films are built.
“Even comic book culture, whether you’re talking about Marvel or DC or all the rest, a lot of it comes directly from the Homeric Epics,” the director said. “The thing about Homer is, nobody knows if that was a person. Homer, in a way, is the sort of George Lucas of his time.”
He said later, “The thing about Homer, it is the Marvel of its day. It’s very directly this desire for us to feel or believe gods could walk amongst us, and I think the modern comic book is kind of our expression of that.”
Nolan also had rave reviews for Tom Holland, who plays Odysseus’ son Telemachus, calling him an “incredible talent.” 
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The “Oppenheimer” director is considered one of the best in the business, but fans are skeptical of a few controversial casting options. Elliot Page, a woman who identifies as a man, is in the cast and is rumored to be playing the Olympian messenger god Hermes. That role has not been confirmed, however.
Another potential casting choice causing an uproar is Lupita Nyong&#8217;o as Helen of Troy. Helen, also known as &#8220;the face that launched a thousand ships,&#8221; was traditionally blonde and considered the most beautiful woman in the world at the time. Critics are saying the decision to cast Nyong’o in that role is a mistake, but it’s only a rumor that she’ll be playing that part. 
Matt Damon portrays Odysseus, King of Ithaca, while Robert Pattinson stars as Antinous. Anne Hathaway was cast as Odysseus’ wife Penelope.
Nolan <a href="https://apnews.com/article/summer-movie-preview-2026-b09b6e9cd8c679a07b95ce5cc7512a74">told</a> the Associated Press last week that he felt a “massive amount of pressure” to adapt the story and said that he “really tried to make the best film possible.”
“Anyone taking on ‘The Odyssey’ is taking on the hopes and dreams of people for epic movies everywhere and that comes with a huge responsibility,” he told the outlet. “What I learned from [making ‘The Dark Knight’ trilogy] is that what people want from a movie about a beloved story, a beloved set of characters, is they want a strong and sincere interpretation. They want to know that a filmmaker has gone to the mat for it.”
The saga hits theaters on July 17, 2026.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joy-behar-whitesplains-racism-to-actual-black-americans-tim-scott-and-clarence-thomas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joy Behar</a> sounded like she&#8217;s fine with sex changes for minors, saying, &#8220;it&#8217;s not like they&#8217;re 80% of the population&#8221; as she slammed Republicans for passing bills that banned such procedures.
&#8220;<a href="https://twitter.com/TheView/status/1666482934277128192?s=20">The View</a>&#8221; co-host made the comments on Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast while speaking to Elliot Page — the actor formerly known as Ellen Page who now identifies as a man — about the star&#8217;s new memoir titled, &#8220;Pageboy.&#8221;
The two discussed GOP-led bills passed across the country to stop minors from undergoing irreversible surgeries under the guise of &#8220;gender-affirming care.&#8221;
<a href="https://twitter.com/TheView/status/1666476414093205508?s=20">Page</a> said it felt like the right time to write the book because we live in a time &#8220;that is so especially rife with anti-trans rhetoric, lies, misinformation.&#8221;
Behar then asked Page about Republicans she claimed &#8220;are continuing to introduce hundreds of anti-trans bills&#8221; that will ban so-called &#8220;gender-affirming health care for transgender youth.&#8221;
&#8220;Why do you think the transgender community is being attacked like this?&#8221; Behar asked. &#8220;What is that about? I mean it&#8217;s not like they&#8217;re 80% of the population.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/TheElliotPage?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheElliotPage</a> calls the rise in anti-trans laws a &quot;political tool to gain votes, &#8230; to distract people &#8230; from real issues that are happening in our society that do need to be addressed.&quot;
&quot;There&#39;s such an inundation of lies and misinformation.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA">https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA</a> <a href="https://t.co/0oULt2rwjv">pic.twitter.com/0oULt2rwjv</a>
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The &#8220;Juno&#8221; star said the bills by Republican lawmakers were probably a &#8220;political tool to gain votes.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s to make people upset,&#8221; Page added. &#8220;It&#8217;s to distract people from, scare people from real issues that are happening in our society that do need to be addressed.&#8221;
Page didn&#8217;t explain further what these &#8220;real issues&#8221; were.
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Page <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elliot-page-lands-time-magazine-cover-talks-of-transgender-surgery">announced</a> to the world in December 2020 the actor was transgender, about six years after coming out as a lesbian. In a March 2021 issue of <a href="https://time.com/5947032/elliot-page-2/">Time magazine</a>, Page discussed undergoing transgender surgery.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/smells-fishy-elliot-page-being-compared-to-jussie-smollett-over-alleged-transphobic-attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;Smells Fishy&#8217;: Elliot Page Being Compared To Jussie Smollett Over Alleged &#8216;Transphobic Attack&#8217;</a>

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elliot-page-formerly-ellen-announces-superhero-character-will-come-out-trans-in-upcoming-season-of-netflix-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elliot Page</a> — the actor formerly known as Ellen Page who know identifies as a man — claimed recently to have been threatened by a &#8220;transphobe&#8221; in Los Angeles, but the claim has been met with skepticism online, where Page has been compared to disgraced actor Jussie Smollett.
In a memoir released Tuesday, titled &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pageboy-Memoir-Elliot-Page/dp/1250878357?tag=nypost-20&amp;asc_refurl=https://nypost.com/2023/06/06/elliot-page-reveals-chilling-transphobic-attack-outside-la-hotel/&amp;asc_source=web" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pageboy</a>,&#8221; the 36-year-old actor alleged that in 2022, when the star was in L.A. (on Sunset and La Cienaga), a man allegedly &#8220;threatened to assault&#8221; the &#8220;Umbrella Academy&#8221; actor, according to the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-06-04/for-real-elliot-page-survival-pageboy-umbrella-academy?fbclid=PAAabljJY_1EyODzdtcVyY1yInSjCyaUnCOw6H9VnaHpXRn_3tEZ_fBtSa5w4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles Times</a>.
&#8220;I&#8217;m going to f***ing gay bash you, f*****,&#8221; the columnist wrote, quoting Page&#8217;s book.
Page then ran to a nearby convenience store, where employees ushered the actor inside. &#8220;From the other side of the door, the man allegedly yelled: &#8216;This is why I need a gun!'&#8221; the columnist added, quoting Page.
&#8220;Now when I&#8217;m in Los Angeles, I don&#8217;t feel comfortable like I used to going for walks,&#8221; Page told the Times.
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&quot;Elliot&quot; Page alleges being on the receiving end of a &quot;transphobic&quot; attack outside of an LA hotel from an &quot;enraged man&quot; throwing around language no one uses in real life. Seems pretty Sussie. Check out the full video now LIVE on YouTube! <a href="https://t.co/RlR6QYgz60">pic.twitter.com/RlR6QYgz60</a>
&mdash; Eric July (@EricDJuly) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricDJuly/status/1666076695898595329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Despite the fact that the &#8220;Juno&#8221; star admitted to having &#8220;resources&#8221; to stay in safe hotels and hire security, the actor said that it &#8220;doesn’t mean it&#8217;s not traumatic. But I have resources that, in every instance that is difficult, protect and can shield me from these things.&#8221;
Social media users reacted to the headlines about the alleged L.A. attack, noting how Left-leaning Hollywood is and comparing it to Smollett&#8217;s race hoax in 2019, calling page &#8220;Ellen Smollett.&#8221;
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-jussie-smollett-ordered-released-from-jail-after-serving-less-than-week-of-5-month-sentence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Smollett</a> told police that he was attacked by two men in Chicago at 2 a.m. who yelled racist and homophobic slurs, wrapped a rope around his neck, poured an &#8220;unknown substance&#8221; on him, and yelled that this is &#8220;MAGA country.&#8221; The disgraced actor was later convicted on five felony counts, which included lying to Chicago police.
&#8220;Oh please-Jussie Smollett 2.o,&#8221; one person tweeted.
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Oh please &#8211; Jussie Smollett 2.0. <a href="https://t.co/gegaSYAHvI">https://t.co/gegaSYAHvI</a>
&mdash; Catturd ™ (@catturd2) <a href="https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1666071061484503040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Another wrote, &#8220;They were also overheard shouting ‘This is MAGA country!’”
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They were also overheard shouting &quot;This is MAGA country!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/YoWHnNycOX">https://t.co/YoWHnNycOX</a>
&mdash; Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1666079086681235456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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While another tweeted, &#8220;Los Angeles is inhospitable to the trans community. Page&#8217;s attackers reportedly said ‘Welcome to Magadonia.’”
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Los Angeles is inhospitable to the trans community. Page’s attackers reportedly said “Welcome to Magadonia.” <a href="https://t.co/d2BGQL2Mlk">https://t.co/d2BGQL2Mlk</a>
&mdash; Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1666080277750493190?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/ada_lluch/status/1666115061411184640?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">One person</a> tweeted that they didn&#8217;t believe Page&#8217;s claims &#8220;that &#8216;he&#8217; was verbally attacked and threatened by a crazed transphobic man in California.&#8221;
&#8220;I do not believe this for the same reason I did not believe Jussie Smollett. Just smells fishy,&#8221; the person added. &#8220;Elliot Page was born female, and this is how an hysterical female acts, not a real man. A real man would have given it right back to the attacker, not run to the press crying.&#8221;
&#8220;A real man doesn&#8217;t need constant affirmation the way trans men do,&#8221; the person continued. &#8220;A real man doesn&#8217;t make things up for attention, because he is the star of his own life. He LEADS, not follows. &#8216;ELLIOT&#8217; Page looks like a boy in &#8216;his&#8217; topless photo, but &#8216;he&#8217; still sounds like the woman &#8216;he&#8217; was born to be.&#8221;
Others were more brief in their sarcasm.
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Ellen Smollett <a href="https://t.co/W2DjPVmVTW">https://t.co/W2DjPVmVTW</a>
&mdash; Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) <a href="https://twitter.com/derekahunter/status/1666080948641726464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Did they leave behind a noose and two Nigerian passports? <a href="https://t.co/zL8dyRFmPq">https://t.co/zL8dyRFmPq</a>
&mdash; Chadwick Moore (@Chadwick_Moore) <a href="https://twitter.com/Chadwick_Moore/status/1666080589810655232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elliot-page-lands-time-magazine-cover-talks-of-transgender-surgery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Page</a> announced to the world in December 2020 the actor was transgender, about six years after the star came out as a lesbian. In a March 2021 issue of <a href="https://time.com/5947032/elliot-page-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Time magazine</a>, Page discussed undergoing transgender surgery.

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If someone from 2008 awakened from a coma and immediately decided to look up their favorite actress <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ellen-page">Ellen Page</a>, that person would be left disappointed because she doesn’t exist anymore in places like IMDb and Wikipedia.
The person formerly known as Ellen Page now goes by Elliot Page and is one of Hollywood&#8217;s most prominent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender">transgender</a> men. Page has only been Elliot since December 1, 2020, but somehow in that short time, has managed to transform the past to suit a new identity.
Daily Wire podcaster Michael Knowles wrote a lengthy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/knowles-are-the-oscars-guilty-of-deadnaming-a-2008-best-actress-nominee">op-ed</a> exploring the contradictions and confusion surrounding the change. He pointed out how the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences still has the name “Ellen Page” listed under <a href="https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2008">nominees</a> for Best Actress in a Leading Role for 2008, which should lead to the Oscars being canceled and deplatformed like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jordan-peterson-id-rather-die-than-delete-truthful-tweet-for-cancel-creeps">Jordan Peterson</a>. 
There’s a chance they weren’t because the Academy bowed to Page’s wishes on another page. When searching for “Ellen Page” on <a href="https://oscars.org/">Oscars.org</a>, users encounter “Elliot Page” instead with a short explainer.
“NOTE: Nomination originally submitted under Elliot Page’s prior name. At the request of the nominee, following his December 1, 2020 announcement that he is transgender, his name has been changed accordingly with support of the Academy’s Awards and Events Committee,” it <a href="https://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/search/getresults?query=%7B%22Nominee%22%3A%22Page%22%2C%22Sort%22%3A%221-Nominee-Alpha%22%2C%22AwardShowNumberFrom%22%3A0%2C%22AwardShowNumberTo%22%3A0%2C%22Search%22%3A30%7D">says</a>. 
That’s less confusing than <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0680983/">IMDb</a>, which appears to have erased Page’s former name entirely. The short bio on the Hollywood star doesn’t contain the name “Ellen” at all, even for roles that Page performed under the former name. Page’s acting past has been erased and rewritten, which Knowles compares to the classic dystopian novel “1984.”
Page’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_Page">Wikipedia</a> offers a terse “formerly Ellen Page” by way of description, but uses he/him pronouns and Elliot throughout the rest of the text. 
The practice of “deadnaming” refers to using a person’s previous name, especially for transgender individuals. Knowles points out that Page went by “Ellen” for 33 out of 35 years of life and can’t just erase that history and start over, plus shouldn’t expect the rest of the world to do so. 
Knowles points out the absurdity of the charade, especially if Page decided tomorrow to switch back to using female pronouns and going by Ellen again. After many instances of transgender people detransitioning, which The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/detransitioners-flood-social-media-with-testimony-photos-the-darkest-time-in-my-life">reported on</a> before, this possibility is not too far-fetched.
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Last week, Twitter<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jordan-peterson-id-rather-die-than-delete-truthful-tweet-for-cancel-creeps"> suspended</a> Jordan Peterson for calling a woman by her name. Jordan’s observation that “Ellen Page just had her breasts removed” had apparently violated Twitter’s rules against “misgendering” and “deadnaming,” two neologisms that mean the opposite of what they seem. The verb “to misgender” first appeared in 1989. It ostensibly refers to inaccurately identifying someone’s sex, but ironically it has come to mean accurately identifying the sex of people who wish it were not so. In reality, Jordan did not “misgender” Ellen Page; he simply “gendered” her. The only people “misgendering” the actress are the ones who pretend that she is a man.
The term “deadname,” which first appeared sometime in the early 2010s, follows a similar illogic. It describes a person’s name from birth until the moment in which he declared himself to be a member of the opposite sex or no sex at all and assumed a new name. Today Ellen goes by “Elliot” and has even legally changed her name. But “Ellen” isn’t Miss Page’s “deadname.” Even if one were to accept the dubious premise that men have a right to call themselves “Sally” and ladies a right to call themselves “Hank,” Ellen isn’t dead. She is very much alive and has called herself “Ellen” for 33 of her 35 years. “Ellen Page” starred in Jason Reitman’s hit film Juno, for which “Ellen Page” received an Oscar<a href="https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2008"> nomination</a> for Best Actress. Must Reitman recut his movie credits now that Ellen fancies herself “Elliot”? Must the Academy rescind Ellen’s nomination for Best Actress and retroactively nominate her for Best Actor? The Academy continues to list &#8220;Ellen Page&#8221; among its past nominees. Does Hollywood&#8217;s most prestigious body condone &#8220;deadnaming&#8221;?
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The prevailing transgender consensus contends that Ellen has always in some way been Elliot. According to Wikipedia, for instance, “Page was born on February 21, 1987… He was assigned female at birth and used his birth name of Ellen prior to transitioning.” In other words, “he” was always a man, albeit a man whom everyone, apparently including herself, believed to be a woman. But Ellen’s supposedly eternal maleness raises new problems of sexual identity. Prior to her “transition,” Ellen entered into a “same-sex marriage” with a woman named Emma Portner. At the time, both ladies considered themselves to be lesbians. Miss Portner still does. But to affirm Page’s “gender identity” is to deny Portner’s “sexual orientation,” and vice versa. If during their relationship Ellen was a man, then Emma was not a lesbian; if Emma was a lesbian, then Ellen was not a man. One cannot simultaneously indulge the sexual ideologies of both women.
And what if someday Ellen once again acknowledges that she is in fact a woman? A growing number of people have<a href="https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/04/14688/"> regretted</a> their “transitions” and<a href="https://lacroicsz.substack.com/p/by-any-other-name?utm_source=url&amp;s=r"> returned</a> to their proper names and pronouns. Will her Wikipedia page strike virtually all references to “Elliot” and “his” accomplishments, just as it did for “Ellen”? What if Ellen changes her mind again? Does her sexual identity have any basis in objective reality, or does it hinge entirely on her own will? The answers to these questions carry implications beyond abstract theorizing. If a person’s sex has its basis in biological reality, then we can perceive that reality with our intellect and avoid falling afoul of the censors’ rules against “misgendering” in the public square. If a person’s will determines his sex, then one can never know for certain what to call anyone, and the censors might cast any of us at any moment into the social media gulag with Jordan Peterson.
The social media companies themselves are liable to fall afoul of this capricious view of sex, as ironically Twitter did when it de-platformed Jordan. After the censors suspended Jordan for mentioning “Ellen Page,” the forbidden name began to trend, which BuzzFeed<a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/twitter-elliot-page-deadname-trending"> noted</a> meant that Twitter had immediately violated the very same rule for which it had punished Peterson. Twitter soon apologized and replaced “Ellen” with “Elliot” among the trending terms.
This revision did not represent a bug in the system but rather an essential feature of the transgender ideology. As one transgender scholar<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08989575.2019.1542845"> explains</a>, “The matter of ‘the past’ is a complicated one for transsexual and transgender people.” That is because the transgender identity requires the constant rewriting of the past according to one’s present self-definition. “It is only understandable,” the scholar insists, “if a trans person responds by insisting on the primacy of the present, by seeking to erase the past, or even by emotionally locating their ‘real self’ in the future, that elusive place where access (to transition, health care, housing, a livable wage, and so on) and social viability tend to appear more abundant.” If Ellen calls herself Elliot today, then Ellen must always have been Elliot no matter how many film credits mention Ellen. Orwell described the same process in Nineteen-Eighty-Four: “The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”
This hostility toward the past helps to explain why leftists of sturdier sexuality have rallied around the movement. Statue-topplers want to erase their forebears as completely as gender identity activists hope to erase their past selves, and transgenderism offers to the activists the additional political benefit of justifying their program on the grounds of pure will without reference to reason or reality. Either Ellen Page is Ellen, or none of us can say who she is or ever was — just as our opponents who control the public square want it.

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DailyWire+ addition <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/watch/jordan-peterson">Jordan Peterson</a> issued a scathing review of Twitter following the social media platform banning him this week. They locked Peterson’s account after he posted his thoughts on transgender actress Elliot Page.
“A few days ago I penned an irritated tweet in response to one of the latest happenings on the increasingly heated culture war front. In response to the decision of an actress — actor — named Ellen – Elliot Page. I am employing this awkward and impossible naming style because it is now apparently mandatory and am probably doing it wrong…I’m trying to make a point,” Peterson began in his reply.
“I’ve essentially been banned from Twitter as a consequence. I say banned although technically, I’ve been suspended. But the suspension will not be lifted unless I delete the ‘hateful’ tweet in question, and I would rather die than do that.”
Next, the Canadian psychologist went over what the tweet said and what he believes the violation may have been, despite Twitter never specifying which part of the rules he violated.
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“Remember when pride was a sin? And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician,” the original tweet said.
Twitter’s explanation said Peterson violated the rules against “hateful conduct,” an accusation that he vehemently denies.
“I did not promote violence against or threaten anyone,” Peterson said in reply.
He went on to discuss the sin of pride and the problem of Pride month being a celebratory occasion.
“I don’t regard pride as a virtue. It has been classically regarded as a sin,” he said, explaining how celebrating or taking pride in your sexual orientation is unnecessary.
Next, Peterson posited that he was banned for deadnaming the “Juno” alum by calling Elliot “Ellen,” or by using the pronoun “her” when the star had since transitioned to using “he/him.”
“How could those I’m writing to make sense of what I was saying if it was his breasts that were removed? Were those male breasts or female breasts that were removed?” he continued, making the case for calling Page a woman to make his point in the first place.
Finally, Peterson said Page may be an adult capable of making decisions as he/she sees fit, but that as a celebrity, there is some level of responsibility to fans as well.
“Elliot has undoubtedly with his/her/their so-called courage… enticed many a poor, confused adolescent – girl, most likely – to blame her emergent pubescent self-consciousness, confusion, and discomfort on being born in the wrong body and believing that the courageous, self-affirming, and moral admirable route is hormonal treatment, sterilization, subjugation to a lifetime of expensive medical complications, and misery,” Peterson said, before pointing out that transgender surgeries and drugs are part of a $300 million industry that’s growing at a rapid pace.
In conclusion, Peterson insisted he’s not deleting the tweet. “Up yours, woke moralists,” the DailyWire+ contributor said. “I regard [being banned] under the present conditions as a badge of honor.”

‘Up Yours, Woke Moralists’: Jordan Peterson Responds To Twitter Ban After Comments About Trans Actress Elliot Page

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A few days ago, I penned an irritated tweet in response to one of the latest happenings on the increasingly heated culture war front in response to the decision of an actress (actor) named <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elliot-page">Ellen (Elliot) Page</a>. I am employing this awkward and impossible multiple-naming style because it is now apparently mandatory — and probably doing it wrong, nonetheless, as “you’re doing it wrong” is the whole point of what has been made mandatory — but also to make a point.
I have essentially been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-suspends-jordan-peterson-after-he-tweets-ellen-page-just-had-her-breasts-removed">banned from Twitter</a> as a consequence. I say banned, although technically <a href="https://twitter.com/MikhailaFuller/status/1541946666567323649?s=20&amp;t=nlfFmbtxQz9oDC-VIzbWqw">I have been suspended</a>. But the suspension will not be lifted unless I delete the “hateful” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/social-media">tweet</a> in question, and I would rather die than do that. And hopefully it will not come to that, although who the hell knows in these increasingly strange days?
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What was it that I said that caused such a fuss? And, even more importantly, and complexly, what exactly was it that I said that resulted in the ban? Here is the tweet in question:
“Remember when Pride was a sin? And <a href="https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1539705413754552320?s=20&amp;t=zXVI1NllRQ-AgBmd56cWcQ">Ellen Page just had her breasts removed</a> by a criminal physician.”
The response from Twitter:
<blockquote>Violating our rules against hateful conduct. You may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability or serious disease. By clicking Delete, you acknowledge that your Tweet violated the Twitter Rules.
If you think we’ve made a mistake, submit an appeal to us. Please note that should you do so, your account will remain locked while we review your appeal.</blockquote>
Let’s take this apart. First, it is clearly the case that I did not “promote violence against” or “threaten” anyone with my missive. So that leaves the arguably lesser sin of “harass.” Let’s assume that was the crime, and, further, harassment on the basis of “gender identity.” Since Twitter did not do me the favor of actually specifying my crime, we unfortunately have to guess at why this has occurred — and that’s actually a big problem in and of itself, and also indicative of the utter carelessness of the Twitter organization with regard to the propriety of its own censorial actions. I should at least know exactly what I did wrong if I am required to “acknowledge that” my “Tweet violated the Twitter Rules.”
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What rules, you sons of bitches? Exactly? Precisely? Because such things matter when the accusations start flying.
So what did I say that might constitute harassment? Many things, hypothetically. Let’s begin with “Remember when pride was a sin?” Although that is merely a factual statement because under the old rules, applicable even a decade ago, pride was a sin, and had been recognized as perhaps the cardinal sin for thousands of years previously. It still might be regarded as unacceptable to the authoritarian moralists who now insist, for example, that we celebrate Pride Month (not hour or day or week, but month) and who have literally called it PRIDE MONTH instead of LGBT+ Month. I don’t regard PRIDE as a virtue; it has been classically regarded as a sin.
I don’t see sexual orientation or sexual desire of any sort as something to celebrate or to take PRIDE in, and what I said was merely a fact. It’s possible that I hurt someone’s feelings because I pointed out that PRIDE goes before, for example, a fall, but I don’t care about that, would do it again, and also consider it my duty to warn those who are about to fall into a pit that the path they are on leads suddenly down hill. But that was probably NOT the reason that I was banned from Twitter — although, as I said, I am in the position of having to guess.
Next phrase to interrogate: “And Ellen Page…” Now, why did I stop there? Because, in all likelihood, it was this seemingly innocuous phrase, including the name of a well-known actress (there, I’m in trouble again), that likely resulted in my ban. I committed the fatal crime of what has come to be known in the appalling censorial terminology of the insane activists as “dead-naming.” That’s the act of referring to someone who has “transitioned” (another hated piece of jargon and slogan) by the name, and by inference the gender (really “sex”) that everyone knew them by previously — and in the case of Ellen/Elliot, that millions of people recognized and knew. So I should have called him/her/they Elliot instead of Ellen, although, as we will discover, that would have made it impossible for me to say what I wanted to and need to say in the remaining phrases. Not that such a problem would bother those who are objecting to my speech in the first place.
The next phrase is “just had her breasts removed.” This bit suffers from a very similar problem. I employed the forbidden pronoun “her” when Elliot is now to be regarded as a “he,” or else. But there’s a conundrum here, to say the least — and not just for me, although I have been banned because of it. Was Elliot/Ellen a she or a he (or Ellen or Elliot) when she or he or they (that’s Elliot or Ellen, by the way) had his or her or their breasts removed? If he or she was a he, then why was it necessary to have the mastectomy? And how could those I am writing to make sense of what I was saying if it was “his” breasts that were removed? Were those male breasts or female breasts that were removed? If they were male breasts, then why were they removed? If they were female breasts (and had therefore become objectionable to the degree that surgery generally reserved for cancer treatment was morally obligatory) then wasn’t Elliot still Ellen and he still she?
How could I possibly have written that sentence in any sensible manner whatsoever while simultaneously making my point understandably — and not breaking Twitter’s rules against so-called hateful conduct? And Elliot Page just had his breasts removed?
Was he Elliot then? When, exactly? He was definitely Ellen at some point in the past, or so indicate all his/her/them/their film credits? Will all those have to be reshot, since they employ the hated “deadname” (that doesn’t exist, by the way, that “deadname” category, except in the censorial and addled minds of a tiny fraction of insanely narcissistic and increasingly dangerous trans activists). When precisely was it incumbent on me to switch my terminology in regard to Elliot/Ellen so that I was not engaging in hateful conduct? And how can I describe the fact that someone who was once a woman (and really still is) had her breasts cut off because she/he/her/them had fallen prey to a viciously harmful fad without using the appropriate sex-linked pronoun and the real name of the real person to whom this was really done (with her/his/their voluntary but unfortunate acquiescence)?
And so it was impossible to communicate what had happened to my audience without, apparently, running afoul of the impossible and absurd rules that now hypothetically govern morality itself in the days of the degenerated postmodern and Marxist ethos that we must still, no matter how impossible it is, abide by — or else.
And, you might object: Ellen/Elliot is an adult (thirty-something) and fully capable of making up her/his/their own mind about such things and she/he/they are welcome from the liberal and the libertarian position to go to hell in a handbasket as she/he/they see fit. And, fair enough — to some degree. But I don’t believe it is either merely picayune or inappropriate to point out that Ellen/Elliot, who is quite a good actor/actress, is also a ritual model for emulation, being a star, with all the privileges and, let us point out, the responsibilities that go along with that.
So, by acquiescing to this surgery, publicizing it and insisting upon the sanctity and moral virtue of his/her/their new expensive, dangerous, and medically-enhanced identity (and by participating in the whole identity charade), Ellen/Elliot has undoubtedly enticed many a poor, confused adolescent girl to blame her emergent pubescent self-consciousness, confusion, and discomfort on “being born in the wrong body” — and believing that the courageous, self- affirming, and morally admirable route is hormonal treatment, sterilization, subjugation to a lifetime of expensive medical complication (how delightfully profitable) and misery. And I believe, firmly, that Ellen/Elliot bears moral culpability for that.
And, finally, with regard to the final phrase “criminal physician,” I must say that I have had some post-coital (so to speak) regrets about that phrase. It is clearly the case that the surgical operation performed by the butchers who butchered Elliot/Ellen was legal. So, was it criminal or not? Were the operations undertaken by the fascist physicians who carried out the Nazi medical experiments legal? Yes, under the laws of the time. But were they criminal? I’ll leave that question up to you to answer.
And, further, perhaps it might be objected, “What about the damage done by hypothetically leaving those confused about their identity to dwell in their confusion? Aren’t we morally obliged to intervene?” And I would say, NO. Why? Well, first “do no harm” as the Hippocratic Oath (remember that?) insists. And, second, it has been a matter of historical consensus that sins of omission are less egregious than sins of commission. Thus, leaving someone with gender dysphoria — no matter how warranted (and perhaps it is, in a very tiny minority of truly unfortunate cases) — to suffer the consequences of the theoretical mismatch between soul and body is a less of a risk, ethically, personally, socially, and philosophically than the extremely active interventions that constitute so-called gender-confirming (another hated phrase) surgery.
I might also point out that the trans surgery enterprise is now a $300 million per annum growth industry (rate of expansion: 15% per year; projected increase by 2027 to $750 million per year). An expanding enterprise in a time of global uncertainty! Time to invest — both in the requisite surgical skills and, perhaps, in any industry associated with this vicious and unconscionable fad, primarily entangling (as such things so often do) the youthful and female. Isn’t that a concern, intersectionalists? Not when push comes to shove, or ideology to scalpel. Is that not a true moral hazard?
And I’m not taking down that tweet, or “acknowledging” that my tweet “violated the Twitter rules.” Up yours, woke moralists. We’ll see who cancels who. And I think, as well, that you woke folks at Twitter, working so hard to improve the world by so carelessly censoring (under the morally superior guise of “regulating hate”) have no idea what a tangled web you&#8217;ve entangled yourself in. Again. Yet again.
I’m really starting to think you’re just not that bright.

Jordan Peterson: I’d Rather Die Than Delete Truthful Tweet For Cancel Creeps

Jordan Peterson: I'd Rather Die Than Delete Truthful Tweet For Cancel Creeps

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Elliot Page, who became famous after starring in the 2007 teen drama “Juno” while still named Ellen Page, discussed feelings of “intense” depression and anxiety before coming out as a transgender man in 2020.
One of these incidents stems from the “Juno” premiere when producers insisted Page should wear a dress. The actor discussed feeling very uncomfortable with the situation during a recent Esquire <a href="https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a40011366/elliot-page-umbrella-academy-euphoria/">interview</a>.
“When Juno was at the height of its popularity, during awards-season time, I was closeted, dressed in heels and the whole look &#8211; I wasn’t OK, and I didn’t know how to talk about that with anyone,” Page told the publication. 
“I wish people would understand that that s*** literally did almost kill me. In my early to mid-20s, I didn’t know how to tell people how unwell I was. I would berate myself for it. I was living the life and my dreams were coming true, and all that was happening. I struggled with food, intense depression, anxiety, and severe panic attacks.”
The “Umbrella Academy” alum was not happy wearing a dress to the Los Angeles premiere while wanting to wear a suit instead. 
Page related how numerous people have apologized after the dress incident, especially after Page came out as transgender. The “Juno” alum described being forced to wear a dress as “extremely f***ed up” and “gross.”
Page also discussed suicidal ideation during the interview.
“Can I relate to the suicide problem among trans people? Yeah, I can relate deeply. And not only to the very conscious, direct act of doing it but also certain times when I lost so much weight or when I was having such severe panic attacks and collapsed multiple times &#8211; all these things that very easily could, and statistically do, lead to death,” Page said.
“There were moments of wanting to not be here&#8230; I would look out the window of my apartment and think, &#8220;With everything going on right now and how incredible it all is, this is how I feel? And I’m 22?&#8221; It was like, I don’t know if I could do it.”
Page described feelings of intense anxiety and fear of leaving the house. Now, the Hollywood star says, everything is different.
“I know I look different to others, but to me I’m just starting to look like myself. It’s indescribable,” Page said of transitioning. 
“The greatest joy is just being able to feel present, literally, just to be present. To go out in a group of new people and be able to engage in a way where I didn’t feel this constant sensation to flee from my body, this never-ending sensation of anxiety and nervousness and wanting out.”
“I thought it was impossible how I’m able to feel now &#8230; I could not picture myself as a woman aging,” Page continued. “Obviously. It was just like, what is my future? There’s not a future. That’s kind of what it felt like. I would say, verbatim: I’ve never been a girl. I’ll never be a woman.”

‘Literally Did Almost Kill Me’: Elliot Page Discusses Wearing Dress To ‘Juno’ Premiere Before Coming Out As Trans

Elliot Page Discusses Wearing Dress To 'Juno' Premiere Before Coming Out As Trans, Says 'Literally Did Almost Kill Me' 

Elliot Page, the actor formerly known as Ellen Page but who know identifies as a man, announced the character Vanya Hargreeves will come out as transgender in the third season of &#8220;The Umbrella Academy.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elliot-page-formerly-ellen-i-collapsed-after-being-asked-to-wear-a-dress-at-inception-premiere">35-year-old actor</a> revealed the news on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbs0uzuPtj6/">Instagram</a> Tuesday when Page captioned the post simply, &#8220;Meet Viktor Hargreeves.&#8221;
The actor&#8217;s post included a photo from the new season of the hit Netflix superhero show, showing Page sitting in a diner as Viktor Hargreeves sitting at the counter sporting short hair, a black leather jacket, and sweatshirt.
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Fellow co-stars of the popular streaming site show, based off the comic book series &#8220;Dark Horse,&#8221; sent support to the actor with messages like &#8220;leather jacket brothers&#8221; and more. The streaming site also sent a message on Twitter confirming that Page&#8217;s character would now be Viktor, <a href="https://ew.com/tv/elliot-page-umbrella-academy-character-trans-season-3/">reported</a> Entertainment Weekly.
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Welcome to the family, Viktor — we’re so happy you’re here ❤️ <a href="https://t.co/hQwD4Vvlkd">https://t.co/hQwD4Vvlkd</a>
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As previously reported by The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elliot-page-lands-time-magazine-cover-talks-of-transgender-surgery">Daily Wire</a>, Page announced to the world in December 2020 the actor was transgender about six years after the star came out as a lesbian. In a March 2021 issue of <a href="https://time.com/5947032/elliot-page-2/">Time</a> magazine, Page discussed undergoing transgender surgery.
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“With deep respect for those who came before me, gratitude for those who have supported me &amp; great concern for the generation of trans youth we must all protect, please join me and decry anti-trans legislation, hate &amp; discrimination in all its forms,” Page captioned the cover in a Twitter post Monday.
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Since that time, Page has been outspoken about transgender issues. In April 2021, the actor claimed laws preventing trans kids from undergoing hormone treatment and participating in sports will be the &#8220;death of children,&#8221; as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elliot-page-formerly-ellen-transgender-laws-will-be-the-death-of-children">reported</a> by The Daily Wire.
<blockquote>Speaking with Vanity Fair, Page declared that she finally feels “able to exist” and condemned the wave of transgender legislation as potentially devastating to her movement.
“The backlash right now is so intense. But the rhetoric coming from anti-trans activists and anti-LGBTQ activists—it’s devastating. These bills are going to be responsible for the death of children. It is that simple,” Page said.
“It just felt like, Okay, the GOP basically wants to destroy the lives of trans kids and stop the Equality Act. How do you not use this platform?” she added.</blockquote>
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With deep respect for those who came before me, gratitude for those who have supported me &amp; great concern for the generation of trans youth we must all protect, please join me and decry anti-trans legislation, hate &amp; discrimination in all its forms. <a href="https://t.co/5yr8TYywTn">pic.twitter.com/5yr8TYywTn</a>
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Elliot Page (Formerly Ellen) Announces Superhero Character Will Come Out Trans In Upcoming Season Of Netflix Show

In January 2019, the now-disgraced actor Jussie Smollett claimed he was targeted and attacked by apparent supporters of President Donald Trump in an anti-gay, anti-black hate crime. 
On Monday, a jury found the former “Empire” actor guilty of having orchestrated a fake hate crime hoax. Soon after, comments made by actor Elliot Page from February 2019 on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert resurfaced, in which Page blamed the “attack” on then-Vice President Mike Pence.
“We have a media that’s saying it’s a debate whether or not what just happened to Jussie Smollett is a hate crime,” Page — who was then known as Ellen Page — said at the time. “It’s absurd&#8230;.It isn’t a debate.”
Colbert interjected, “I agree.”
Page continued, “Sorry, I’m like, I’m really fired up tonight.”
Colbert encouraged, “You have to be fired up.”
Page then continued:
<blockquote>It feels impossible to not feel this way right now with the president and Vice President Mike Pence, who wishes I couldn’t be married. Let’s just be clear. The vice president of America wishes I didn’t have the love with my wife. He wanted to ban that in Indiana. He believes in conversion therapy. He has hurt LGBTQ people so badly as the governor of Indiana, and I think the thing we need to know and I hope my show Gaycation did this in terms of connecting the dots in terms of what happened the other day to Jussie, I don’t know him personally, I send all of my love. Connect the dots. This is what happens. If you are in a position of power and you hate people and you want to cause suffering to them, you go through the trouble, you spend your career trying to cause suffering, what do you think is going to happen?
Kids are going to be abused and they’re going to kill themselves, and people are going to be beaten on the street. I have traveled the world and I have met the most marginalized people you could meet. I am lucky to have this time and the privilege to say this. This needs to f***ing stop.</blockquote>
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Shortly after, when information arose which seemed to suggest the attack was a hoax, Page doubled down.
“The conversation around Jussie Smollett has led us all to examine hate violence and its implications and aftermath. I had no reason to doubt Jussie,” said Page in a guest column at <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ellen-page-jussie-smollett-fallout-guest-column-1191006?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_source=t.co&amp;utm_medium=referral">The Hollywood Reporter</a>. “If this situation was staged, it could make victims even more reluctant to report these crimes. Very real crimes,” Page added.
“While the media and public debate the case and await more information, we must not lose sight of the very real, endemic violence that LGBTQ+ people, people of color and other underrepresented communities face every day,” Page continued. “I ask you not to question our pain, not to draw into question our trauma, but to maintain, wholeheartedly, that hate violence exists. The merits of one case should not and cannot call that into question. The media coverage does not convey the reality and totality of the cruelty and danger we face. This is the story that must be told.”

FLASHBACK: Elliot Page Blamed Jussie Smollett ‘Hate Crime’ Hoax On VP Mike Pence, ‘Connect The Dots’

Mike Pence

Academy Award-winning actor J.K. Simmons praised Elliot Page (formerly Ellen), who played alongside him in the hit movie &#8220;Juno.&#8221;
Speaking with <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jk-simmons-elliot-page-support-juno-dad-transgender-rights-iconic-in-new-way-213808648.html">Yahoo Entertainment</a>, Simmons commended Page for being &#8220;iconic in a new way.&#8221;
“I had an awesome time working on Juno, Elliot’s been one of my favorite actors to watch since then, and a wonderful actor to work with,” Simmons said.
Page came out as transgender and non-binary in early December 2020, roughly six years after coming out as a lesbian.
“Hi friends, I want to share with you that I am trans, my pronouns are he/they and my name is Elliot,” Page said in a statement posted to Twitter. “I feel lucky to be writing this. To be here. To have arrived at this place in my life. I feel overwhelming gratitude for the incredible people who have supported me along this journey. I can’t begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self.”
Regarding Page&#8217;s transition, Simmons said, “It’s been great to watch that happen,” while emphasizing that Page has become &#8220;iconic in a new way&#8221; and &#8220;a positive influence for a lot of people.&#8221;
During her coming out post on Instagram in December, Page denounced “the political leaders” who “want to criminalize trans health care and deny our right to exist.”
“The statistics are staggering. The discrimination towards trans people is rife, insidious and cruel, resulting in horrific consequences. In 2020 alone it has been reported that at least 40 transgender people have been murdered, the majority of which were Black and Latinx trans women,” Page asserted.
“[Y]ou have blood on your hands. You unleash a fury of vile and demeaning rage that lands on the shoulders of the trans community, a community in which 40% of trans adults report attempting suicide. Enough is enough. You aren’t being ‘cancelled,’ you are hiring people. I am one of those people and we won’t be silent in the face of your attacks,” Page added.
Later, during an interview with <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/04/elliot-page-finally-feels-able-to-just-exist">Vanity Fair</a>, Page condemned the recent wave of transgender legislation as potentially devastating to the trans movement.
“The backlash right now is so intense. But the rhetoric coming from anti-trans activists and anti-LGBTQ activists—it’s devastating. These bills are going to be responsible for the death of children. It is that simple,” Page said.
“It just felt like, Okay, the GOP basically wants to destroy the lives of trans kids and stop the Equality Act. How do you not use this platform?” added Page.
Page attested to feeling like a boy even as a toddler.
“I knew I was a boy when I was a toddler,” said Page. “I was writing fake love letters and signing them ‘Jason.’ Every little aspect of my life, that is who I was, who I am, and who I knew myself to be. I just couldn’t understand when I’d be told, ‘No, you’re not. No, you can’t be that when you’re older.’ Now I’m finally getting myself back to feeling like who I am, and it’s so beautiful and extraordinary, and there’s a grief to it in a way.”
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