TRANS PEOPLE

Totally unscientific survey of transition demographics on the fediverse, for transgender, non-binary, and gender diverse people.

What year did you either come out, begin transition, and/or have your egg crack?

2023 - present
2020 - 2022
2016 - 2019
2015 or earlier
Poll ends at .

@mallory_sinn well there's a toughie ;)

first egg crack: 1989
second egg crack: 2006
final egg crack: 2020 <- i voted here
came out: 2023
started transitioning: 2024

:D

@brooke yeah, I am kind of assuming people can decide what makes the most sense in terms of their “beginning” since we may have several false starts or not be able to live as ourselves for a while even after an initial egg cracking.
@brooke did you just ignore or deny your egg cracking moments before? Or was it something else?
@mallory_sinn denial's not just a river in egypt :D

@mallory_sinn (so...)

as a 10 year old kid staring down the wrong puberty i didn't feel i could do *anything* about it at the time, so i just packed it deep down and told nobody

in my 20s i experimented privately with crossdressing and knew Something Was Up but didn't know what to do about it and stuffed it back down

in my 40s i had a crisis of burnout and depression and knew i needed to start facing my shit. i put in the work on my emotions and gained the psychological safety to come out

@mallory_sinn for folks with trauma or personality/mood disorders who have STRONG EMOTIONS and have trouble handling their shit: DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) is fucken great