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CW: References death in passing
@ics @Mendie_Taoma In our case, the question of "What if I'm trans?" had been buzzing around our head since around November/December 2019.
Around the same time, we'd played or were playing co-op games of Divinity: Original Sin 2 and Stardew Valley with our wife (#MyReason) as girl / woman characters, which was totally normal cis guy behaviour 😅
By March 2020, we were working entirely remotely from home. Then lockdown happened too.
Before then, our mental bandwidth was constantly taken up by the noise and distraction of others in the office, as well as having to put up with neurotypical expectations. Without this to exhaust our mind, there was space to question whether this was something.
We procrastinated heavily at first. It was too big a question to start to answer. The most we did at first really was let our hair grow out for about 6 months, before chickening out and shaving it off.
That was the last time we shaved the hair on our head.
Meanwhile, looking back at our YouTube search history, we were continuing or had just started watching like Steven Universe and The Owl House (totally normal cishet series), we continued always choosing a fem character in games, and we watched videos about SARS-CoV-2.
Around the beginning of 2021, we were still not taking any active action, just letting our hair grow out. It looks like we were playing a lot of Minecraft (1.16.x) at the time and watching Minecraft music collab videos by ZAMination and other creators (e.g., Skeleton Rap; Zombie Girl; Just Monika etc.).
Something near the end of 2020 or beginning of 2021, our team leader went on prolonged sick leave. We knew he'd been struggling with energy for a while, but tests hadn't found anything then as far as we knew.
Sometime in March 2021, we and our colleagues in the same department at work were called into a meeting. We had no idea what it was about, and when they first mentioned our team leader's name, we thought maybe he'd been fired or something. We didn't expect what then happened.
The head of department attempted to give us an update on our team leader without bursting into tears, failing entirely. He had died. Not just that, but it was due to them finding an aggressive, late-stage cancer of some kind, which somehow none of the previous tests had identified. They'd tried to treat him with chemotherapy as soon it was discovered, if we recall correctly, but it had only quickened the end.
It wasn't just a shock to us: it broke something in us. He'd seemed a bit low energy but otherwise okay just a short while back, and suddenly he was no more, just like that. No time for goodbyes. No time to let him know how much we all liked him, irrespective of him being a bit bumbling at times.
Our thoughts around this time are a jumbled mess. All we can recall is that it made us realise that our life could end just that suddenly too, without us ever being brave enough to answer the question that we'd been procrastinating finding an answer for.
On 3rd April 2021, we watched Abigail Thorn's coming out video, and associated videos.
On 4th April 2021, we apparently searched YouTube for "trans coming out" videos.
Sometime after that, we booked a phone appointment to talk with a GP about our gender identity, scheduled for 23rd April 2021. This was followed by an in-person appointment on 6th May 2021 to fill out forms to be referred to an NHS gender clinic.
The rest, as they say, is history, and a tale for another time.
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CW: re: about transphobia
@wyatt8740 Some people I've run into are against Internet "egg cracking" culture that they claim overdiagnoses GNC people as trans and makes GNC people feel they need to transition to have support from friends.
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Celebrating My Egg Cracking Anniversary!
What an experience! I remember that day a year ago very well. I was on vacation visiting my family in Mexico. We had just come back from the beach the day before. The next day, we were going to Mexico City to catch a plane home. I decided to walk around my family's town and relax before our trip. I spent the day downtown, buying gifts for friends and enjoying every moment.
When I got back to my parents' house, I was very tired. I continued binge watching the anime "Onimai," and by bedtime, I was at the last episode of the first season. In "Onimai," the main character changes from a boy to a girl using an experimental drug. In the last episode, as the drug's effects start to fade, the character has to choose whether to go back to being a boy or take more of the drug, knowing it would last longer and be harder to reverse. Watching this, I quietly said, "I wish I had that drug..." and then my life changed forever!
I don't regret finding this out. The journey hasn't been easy or cheap. However, after a year, I still have a lot to explore, both inside myself and in the world. I've lost some relationships, yet the ones that remain are stronger, especially with my wife and kid. I have a new life ahead, which is both scary and exciting.
#Anniversary #NewBeginnings #JourneyOfDiscovery #Transformation #LoveAndGrowth #EggCracking #transJoy
Happy Egg Cracking Anniversary to me!
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Celebrating My Egg Cracking Anniversary!
What an experience! I remember that day a year ago very well. I was on vacation visiting my family in Mexico. We had just come back from the beach the day before. The next day, we were going to Mexico City to catch a plane home. I decided to walk around my family's town and relax before our trip. I spent the day downtown, buying gifts for friends and enjoying every moment.
When I got back to my parents' house, I was very tired. I continued binge watching the anime "Onimai," and by bedtime, I was at the last episode of the first season. In "Onimai," the main character changes from a boy to a girl using an experimental drug. In the last episode, as the drug's effects start to fade, the character has to choose whether to go back to being a boy or take more of the drug, knowing it would last longer and be harder to reverse. Watching this, I quietly said, "I wish I had that drug..." and then my life changed forever!
I don't regret finding this out. The journey hasn't been easy or cheap. However, after a year, I still have a lot to explore, both inside myself and in the world. I've lost some relationships, yet the ones that remain are stronger, especially with my wife and kid. I have a new life ahead, which is both scary and exciting.
#Anniversary #NewBeginnings #JourneyOfDiscovery #Transformation #LoveAndGrowth #EggCracking #transJoy
Happy Egg Cracking Anniversary to me!
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Celebrating My Egg Cracking Anniversary!
What an experience! I remember that day a year ago very well. I was on vacation visiting my family in Mexico. We had just come back from the beach the day before. The next day, we were going to Mexico City to catch a plane home. I decided to walk around my family's town and relax before our trip. I spent the day downtown, buying gifts for friends and enjoying every moment.
When I got back to my parents' house, I was very tired. I continued binge watching the anime "Onimai," and by bedtime, I was at the last episode of the first season. In "Onimai," the main character changes from a boy to a girl using an experimental drug. In the last episode, as the drug's effects start to fade, the character has to choose whether to go back to being a boy or take more of the drug, knowing it would last longer and be harder to reverse. Watching this, I quietly said, "I wish I had that drug..." and then my life changed forever!
I don't regret finding this out. The journey hasn't been easy or cheap. However, after a year, I still have a lot to explore, both inside myself and in the world. I've lost some relationships, yet the ones that remain are stronger, especially with my wife and kid. I have a new life ahead, which is both scary and exciting.
#Anniversary #NewBeginnings #JourneyOfDiscovery #Transformation #LoveAndGrowth #EggCracking #transJoy
Happy Egg Cracking Anniversary to me!
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Celebrating My Egg Cracking Anniversary!
What an experience! I remember that day a year ago very well. I was on vacation visiting my family in Mexico. We had just come back from the beach the day before. The next day, we were going to Mexico City to catch a plane home. I decided to walk around my family's town and relax before our trip. I spent the day downtown, buying gifts for friends and enjoying every moment.
When I got back to my parents' house, I was very tired. I continued binge watching the anime "Onimai," and by bedtime, I was at the last episode of the first season. In "Onimai," the main character changes from a boy to a girl using an experimental drug. In the last episode, as the drug's effects start to fade, the character has to choose whether to go back to being a boy or take more of the drug, knowing it would last longer and be harder to reverse. Watching this, I quietly said, "I wish I had that drug..." and then my life changed forever!
I don't regret finding this out. The journey hasn't been easy or cheap. However, after a year, I still have a lot to explore, both inside myself and in the world. I've lost some relationships, yet the ones that remain are stronger, especially with my wife and kid. I have a new life ahead, which is both scary and exciting.
#Anniversary #NewBeginnings #JourneyOfDiscovery #Transformation #LoveAndGrowth #EggCracking #transJoy
Happy Egg Cracking Anniversary to me!
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Celebrating My Egg Cracking Anniversary!
What an experience! I remember that day a year ago very well. I was on vacation visiting my family in Mexico. We had just come back from the beach the day before. The next day, we were going to Mexico City to catch a plane home. I decided to walk around my family's town and relax before our trip. I spent the day downtown, buying gifts for friends and enjoying every moment.
When I got back to my parents' house, I was very tired. I continued binge watching the anime "Onimai," and by bedtime, I was at the last episode of the first season. In "Onimai," the main character changes from a boy to a girl using an experimental drug. In the last episode, as the drug's effects start to fade, the character has to choose whether to go back to being a boy or take more of the drug, knowing it would last longer and be harder to reverse. Watching this, I quietly said, "I wish I had that drug..." and then my life changed forever!
I don't regret finding this out. The journey hasn't been easy or cheap. However, after a year, I still have a lot to explore, both inside myself and in the world. I've lost some relationships, yet the ones that remain are stronger, especially with my wife and kid. I have a new life ahead, which is both scary and exciting.
#Anniversary #NewBeginnings #JourneyOfDiscovery #Transformation #LoveAndGrowth #EggCracking #transJoy
Happy Egg Cracking Anniversary to me!
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CW: trans femme meme
This photo @dana took of me today was begging to be made into a trans meme...
#boostswelcome #transfemme #transgender #eggcracking #eggcracked -
Just been playing with the Calckey 'pages' feature here on blahaj.zone and created a person page on my transition timeline.
I may need to scan some older physical photos to add some more backstory from before the first photo, but other than that it is currently up to date...
#TransHealthCare #Transition #EggCracking #Transgender
https://blahaj.zone/@toni/pages/timeline