Elliot Page’s latest remarks—that gender is little more than a “quaint myth” and the male-female dynamic “absurd”—land like a live round in the culture-war chamber, and the 2A community should treat them as such. Page, who once portrayed a pregnant teenager in Juno and now publicly identifies as a man, is simultaneously rejecting the very biological categories that historically justified the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense. When the same voices who insist sex is imaginary also push policies that disarm law-abiding citizens, the logical endpoint is a society where only the state—or the physically strongest—decides who is protected. Firearm ownership has always been the great equalizer; it does not require belief in fluid identities, only recognition that threats are real and that biology still dictates who is statistically more likely to commit violent crime.

The deeper implication is strategic. Progressive activists have spent years framing gun ownership as toxic masculinity; now some of those same activists are declaring masculinity itself a myth. That rhetorical pivot hands the 2A movement a clearer target: defend the empirical reality that men commit the overwhelming majority of firearm homicides, then argue that law-abiding women and smaller-statured men need the means to deter those threats. Training data from the CDC and FBI Uniform Crime Reports remain stubbornly consistent regardless of anyone’s pronouns; they show that armed citizens—especially women—interrupt predatory behavior far more often than media narratives admit. Page’s comments therefore serve as an unintended recruiting tool, reminding fence-sitting moderates that the same ideology eroding sex-based rights is also eroding the individual right to effective self-defense.

For the firearms community the takeaway is straightforward: stay laser-focused on observable reality. Every range day, every constitutional-carry expansion, and every defensive-shooting statistic quietly rebuts the notion that biology is optional. When cultural figures declare the male-female distinction absurd, they inadvertently validate why millions of Americans—particularly those who cannot rely on greater size or strength—choose to exercise their Second Amendment rights. The gun does not care about myths; it only cares about physics, training, and the willingness to confront danger with equal force.