I'm not commenting on Page; I hope the book tour finishes soon and they get a rest from promoting it.
What I'm curious about is the emotional onanism the interviewer and commenter are indulging in. Entrancing themselves with a vacuous narrative about being 'true to yourself' and bawling their eyes out over it.
I suppose its a sort of asexual version of the fairytale princess Happy Ending people are looking for - an alternative to the Big Romance is the Big Self Reveal.
Maybe that's a slight improvement in that women might move away a bit from wanting the Perfect Man/HEA, maybe Finding the Self is a little less risky (leaving aside the politics of transition).
But it's still a mirage and an impossible promise. The basic premise is escaping the self, which isn't possible and is unhealthy. Transformation. Escape. Rebirth. We long for it and as we do so we remain stuck.
I do wish as a culture we'd move onto healthier narratives. Acceptance is very unexciting but it's the only thing that really works, I think.