The actor formerly known as Ellen Page

I work on the belief that people have the right to freedom until that freedom interferes with the freedom of others. A person can identify how they please but, when that person prescribes which pronouns they wish to be addressed as and, when websites rename the said celebrity and edit their page to reflect their new pronouns and, when people are chastised for 'deadnaming' trans people, that crosses the line and compromises the freedom of others.

Some would say that it's about kindness to refer to Page by her preferred pronouns. But, when you are dictating how people should think and speak, it's not kindness, it's authoritarianism.

Most people know Page as a woman. That view of her does not change because Page held a press conference where she announced she was a man or because Woke websites now insist that she be called 'he'. Moreover, arguably Page's most famous role was as a pregnant teenage girl. There she was channelling her lived experience (she was 20 at the time playing a 16-year-old) as a young woman who was coming into maturity and dealing with sex and relationships for the first time. Audiences know Page for playing a pregnant woman and that exists in the minds of every audience member. To say that Page and the Wokists on IMDB and Wikipedia have ownership over the image of Page that exists in the audience's collective minds, is the height of totalitarianism.

Maybe Page wants to eschew Hollywood and live a quiet life as a man and, if so, whatever. But, to pretend that Page has always been a man, and, to alter each and every pronoun, is to indulge in authoritarian delusion.