As an ex trans person, I can translate gender woo: Ellen feels profound dehumanization. Beyond body or gender, but on a human level. She is seeking deep love, using her pain identity/wounded outsider trans persona as a proxy. If you affirm her, you love her. If not, you confirm her dehumanization. Page was sexually assaulted multiple times growing up, per her memoir. Being homosexual + assaulted created chronic dehumanized feelings, and narratives in her mind. When she says that people who don’t