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Elliot Page has won praise for posing bare-chested for the first time since coming out as trans in December.

An Instagram post shared by the actor showed him smiling while posing in a pool in swimming shorts alongside the words #transjoy and #transisbeautiful.

Page, 34, previously described his top surgery – where breast tissue is removed – as “life-saving”.

Speaking to Oprah Winfrey last month he said it made him “feel comfortable” in his body “for probably the first