{"id":138426,"date":"2024-12-13T14:01:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T14:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/13\/emma-dumont-reflects-on-longest-challenge-of-coming-out-to-themself\/"},"modified":"2024-12-13T14:01:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T14:01:42","slug":"emma-dumont-reflects-on-longest-challenge-of-coming-out-to-themself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/13\/emma-dumont-reflects-on-longest-challenge-of-coming-out-to-themself\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Dumont reflects on &#8216;longest challenge&#8217; of coming out to themself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-12-13\" datetime=\"1734098502\" pubdate=\"\">13 December 2024<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Emma Dumont knew in their early teens they weren&#8217;t &#8220;like other girls&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Emma Dumont is proud to be trans<\/p>\n<p>\nThe &#8216;Oppenheimer&#8217; star came out earlier this month as trans masculine non-binary, using they\/them pronouns, and they have now reflected on the &#8220;rewarding&#8221; but lengthy process it has taken to get to this point in their life.<\/p>\n<p>\nThey told Out in a statement: &#8220;Coming out to myself as trans has been one of the longest challenges I&#8217;ve faced in life. It has also been the most rewarding by a mile.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I lived in an authoritarian household for many decades where it wasn&#8217;t safe to be myself at home. I knew at 13\/14 I wasn&#8217;t &#8216;like other girls,&#8217; I knew I liked girls and I knew I didn&#8217;t feel right in my body.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Around 19, I was cast as an AFAB trans teenager in a TV pilot. I looked at myself in my trailer in basketball shorts, bandage wrapped around my chest and I thought, &#8216;damn I look good! <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;A decade later, I found a safe community, figured out I was nonbinary. Now I&#8217;m out, have a life I could have only dreamed of as a kid, and I still get to play women at work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nEmma &#8211; who uses the name Nick in their personal life &#8211; &#8220;loves&#8221; being trans and is grateful to have so much support around them.<\/p>\n<p>\nThey added: &#8220;I&#8217;m trans. I love being trans. We&#8217;re here. We&#8217;ve always been here.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m grateful to be living in this time and place where I have safe spaces and support. Where I can go to the LA LGBT Center and get medical care without fear. That hasn&#8217;t been the experience many have had. I truly owe a great deal of gratitude to the courageous queer people who have come before me.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d be out to everyone so soon but I made a promise to myself that if someone asked, I would share. Someone did ask and I shared\u2026because I&#8217;m proud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe &#8216;Licorice Pizza&#8217; star&#8217;s representative confirmed their 30-year-old client&#8217;s gender identity last week.<\/p>\n<p>\nA spokesperson told TMZ: \u201cThey identify as a trans masculine non-binary person. Their work name is still going to be Emma Dumont, but they will go by Nick with friends and family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/emma-dumont-reflects-longest-challenge-coming-themself-1410577.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 December 2024 Emma Dumont knew in their early teens they weren&#8217;t &#8220;like other girls&#8221;. 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