My egg cracking as far as I remember started as a very sudden out of the blue thought of “You’re a girl” while I was just sitting in class and that thought just kept repeating constantly in my head for weeks. It was so loud I could hardly think of anything else.
I was very confused and afraid about what it meant but I didn’t push it away and I spent a lot of time thinking about it and experimenting with my gender and about 1 month later I accepted myself as a trans woman.
I don’t remember thinking that I couldn’t be a trans woman, but I remember slowly edging towards it, and I first considered myself to be a femboy, then a demigirl, and then finally arriving at trans woman.
I had a similar trajectory of trying out different “labels”
I went from questioning, to non binary, to some sort of femme non binary, femboy, demi, trans woman.
Sometimes we need to inch closer and closer until we realize we finally know who we are.
Plus I find it generally gives us a little more empathy for all types of identities. Even if they weren’t the “right fit” for us, doesn’t mean we can’t empathize and celebrate those folk who find themselves elsewhere on the spectrum :)
My egg cracking as far as I remember started as a very sudden out of the blue thought of “You’re a girl” while I was just sitting in class and that thought just kept repeating constantly in my head for weeks. It was so loud I could hardly think of anything else.
I was very confused and afraid about what it meant but I didn’t push it away and I spent a lot of time thinking about it and experimenting with my gender and about 1 month later I accepted myself as a trans woman.
I don’t remember thinking that I couldn’t be a trans woman, but I remember slowly edging towards it, and I first considered myself to be a femboy, then a demigirl, and then finally arriving at trans woman.
I had a similar trajectory of trying out different “labels”
I went from questioning, to non binary, to some sort of femme non binary, femboy, demi, trans woman.
Sometimes we need to inch closer and closer until we realize we finally know who we are.
Plus I find it generally gives us a little more empathy for all types of identities. Even if they weren’t the “right fit” for us, doesn’t mean we can’t empathize and celebrate those folk who find themselves elsewhere on the spectrum :)