EstelJul 31, 2023

If any #trans or #enby folxs out there had stories to share about your egg cracking ,(figuring out your gender) especially if it was a long or drawn out process id love to hear them.

(Had a day if going back and forth about whether or not im deluding myself in even trying. The versions of yall in my head were very good at dissuading me of that notion with kindness)

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Show threadBinary Waddle 
@EverBeyondReach One of the more distinct moments I realize now looking back was in highschool and I was doing clinicals in a hospital for a nursing class. A friend and I were following a tech to another section of the hospital when a doctor was walking by and stopped to briefly talk to the tech. As he went to leave he looked at both my friend and I and turned to the tech and said "well at least you have the two lovely ladies here with you to help" (or something along those lines). I remember how happy I was that I was misgendered? I didn't understand why. A couple decades later and I'm in a discord server with a lot of awesome friends / coworkers and a bot was invited that let us set our pronouns. I set mine as they/them. I didn't have any specific reason in mind when I did other than to give it a shot and see how it went. Fast forward a week or two later and one of my friends messaged me apologizing for misgendering as they didn't see I had set my pronouns. At the time I didn't tell anyone about my pronouns, the only place it was displayed was a label/role in discord. I didn't even realize she had misgendered me until she messaged apologizing. That's when it clicked for me that this is what felt right and what I was comfortable with.
Jul 31, 2023 at 10:43pmWeb
Show threadEstelJul 31, 2023
@binarywaddle thank you for sharing!