Ellie Desautels

Ellie Desautels is an actor and activist who is nonbinary, transmasculine, genderqueer , and agenderflux. Notably, they play the transgender man Michael on the NBC show Rise.

Ellie is in a relationship with Wren Hallman who is also nonbinary. They met on Tumblr.

Quotes
"I realized that I wasn’t a girl in college. I met my fiance on Tumblr and we figured our gender identities out together, and found the term to describe ourselves on Tumblr.

That’s where I got most of my information. When I found some terms, I started looking more things up and putting more research into things.

There was never a moment where I did not like being a girl. I identified as such and I didn’t feel like oh, this isn’t right.

I had one momentary thing in high school that I can get into in a bit, but when I found there were other terms to describe me, like nonbinary terms and terms under the nonbinary umbrella, I started realizing that fits me better.

Not that girl didn’t fit me, but this fits me much, much better. I think this is definitely what I am."