Elliot Page: Actor wins praise for sharing swimming shorts image after top surgery

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 monthhe said it made him "feel comfortable" in his body "for probably the first time".

The Umbrella Academy star tearfully explained why his chest had brought him the "most joy" in transitioning.

"It's getting out of the shower and the towel's around your waist and you're looking at yourself in the mirror and you're just like, 'There I am'. And I'm not having the moment where I'm panicked," he said during the Apple TV interview.