Pacifica Radio is a small network of radical-left “public” radio stations that were annually funded in part by taxpayers of all ideologies. This week, a clip from their signature daily talk show Democracy Now featured trans actor Elliot Page (former name: Ellen Page) gushing over a documentary on the gender “diversity” of the animal kingdom.
The film is titled Second Nature, inspired by “trans evolutionary biologist Dr. Joan Roughgarden and her groundbreaking book, Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People.”
Page narrates over the documentary in her chemically lowered voice. She told Pacifica host Amy Goodman “I got involved because I was so — just I was so moved by it and found it so affirming as a trans and queer person. I mean, quite frankly, I felt very silly for not assuming this all to be true already.”
The clip that circulated, Page touted Roughgarden’s affirming work on gender-fluid seahorses and the like:
Transgender actress Elliot Page claims it’s “ABSURD” that people think animals cannot be queer and LGBTQI+.
“Looking at nature as some cis hetero patriarchal structure is absurd. This gender binary that we’ve created is nothing but a quaint little myth.” pic.twitter.com/6BtI3TahDP— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) July 13, 2026
PAGE: One of my favorite lines in this documentary, something she says, in terms of looking at nature as if it’s some sort of cis/heteropatriarchal structure is absurd, and that this, you know, gender binary that we’ve created is nothing but a “quaint little myth.”
And I think, you know, her work and this documentary really, really shows that what we have been taught in school in regards to these structures — men being superior, women being inferior, you know, submissive, or what have you, it being this, yes, heterosexual existence — is just completely false.
And I think what’s so wonderful about this documentary is it really illustrates, you know, why that information has been so suppressed, and how important it is for us to all learn about this, and how it’s only expansive and, you know, exciting, all of this information.
It's a "quaint little myth" that there are boys and there are girls, even if someone wants to think they were "assigned at birth" to the wrong body.
Minutes later, she repeats the point about “suppressed” transgender truths:
I hope this film, for everyone, but, you know, for queer and trans people right now specifically, could make you feel — one feel less alone in this world and more a part of this world, when we’re told we’re, you know, not natural or something’s wrong with us, or what have you, and to learn about all this information that’s been, you know, purposefully kept from us.
Page is absolutely suppressing a truth, but she doesn't see it that way.
