# Ellen Page is trans/nonbinary now, name is Elliot

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-page-is-trans-nonbinary-now-name-is-elliot/926940>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 1, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-page-is-trans-nonbinary-now-name-is-elliot/926940 "2020-12-01T18:09:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 3, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ellen-page-is-trans-nonbinary-now-name-is-elliot/926940/128 "2020-12-03T21:47:56Z")

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> [@Broomstick](#):
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> Perhaps you yourself might benefit from speaking to a professional as this is clearly causing you distress and, as you point out, your child has enough to deal with right now.

Wait, your telling a person who clearly has trouble dealing with the childs decision (and rightly so) to "go see a doctor "? You see a doctor if your sick.

They are not sick.

What are you expecting of them seeing a counselor?

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