This is genius
When I see this kind of thing, I talk about how I’m AMAB and all the wonders estrogen has done for My ass.
I know a Scottish guy who hadn’t heart of HRT until I told him about it, despite having an out trans friend for many years. Cause of the NHS waitlists.
I’m the dude, dressed like a girl, disguised as another girl
So, a transmasc egg?
… 😭
Last year for Halloween I asked my daughter what she wanted to be. She said she wanted to be the Big Bad Wolf. I asked her who I should be and she said Goldilocks.
Yes I am aware that they are not even from the same story.
But when your daughter says so, then you do so.
Except for maybe blackface. Don’t ever do blackface.
Here in Australia there was a scandal a few years ago when a kid went to the book fair dressed as his favourite author, which is a very normal thing to do, except that his favourite author was Nic Naitinui and he went in blackface with a dreadlock wig, which is very not normal. A lot of people got angry. A lot of other people said “Well he’s just a kid, he didn’t know” and tried to invalidate the anger. One of the people saying that was the kid’s mum. Problem is, the day before the book fair she was on facebook talking about her plan and saying she didn’t care who she offended. Kid mightn’t’ve known, but mum sure did.
Good dad.
Good fish.
Or you embarrass the shit out of someone exploring gender identity and they feel like even wearing a dress on Halloween means everyone thinks they’re a trans woman, and they need to go back and fit in the gender box they were assigned
Not everyone needs to transition
Been misgendered as “egg” too many times. No, I’m nb, but thanks for implying I’m something I’m not.
Yeah the implication that someone dressing as the other gender is a reason to attempt to punish them just doesn’t make sense on so many levels here.
Even if they are an egg who should likely transition some day, they kinda need to come to that conclusion themselves. Trying to force that info on them before they’re ready to accept it could very likely push that back into repressing their gender even longer. Probably better to tell them they look great in that outfit and they’re really pulling it off. Give them the euphoria of feeling cute and hope they figure the rest out.
Thank you, sometimes it’s really just surface level. Not everyone is an “egg”.
And not all eggs are ready to hear things
Yeah, I imagine this would be awkward much more often than it would be well-received. Most people aren’t trans, and assuming their costume is secretly a cry for help is likely to embarrass them. It’s the one time of the year you are supposed to be able to dress weird without people making assumptions about you.
So what I’m hearing is that I, as an overweight cis man, should wear unironic drag for Halloween for the public good.
Unironically yes, more cis men should do drag
Going into Halloween, Rocky Horror is training wheels for cis men.
I agree that not everyone needs to transition.
However, I don’t see the problem in at least trying to be helpful. Gently trying to open up this topic, seeing how they react. If they’re uncomfortable or not interested, you don’t push them ofc and you leave them alone. If they become angry, it’s probably a shitty cis guy.
I personally would have given anything for someone to have done this for me 5-6 years ago. I would give anything to have started earlier. And pardon me for being blunt, but if you don’t experience the crippling pain that is gender dysphoria, you may not completely understand that yourself.
If you plan to actually try to help someone who does this on halloween, please do it at a different time, in private, and be very careful about what you say, and how you approach this. There is a reason we have the saying that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
But there are other options too… Some may just like an excuse to cross dress in public without transitioning
Sure. But you can probably figure that out by gauging their reaction. If they seem to get angry, it’s almost certainly a shitty cis dude.
Intentionally trying to provoke people whose identities and intentions you don’t even know is kinda shitty though, isn’t it?
Would you call this provocation tho? From my understanding, this meme was mostly bashing cis dudes who basically make fun of trans people by “dressing up as women” and using that in offensive and misogynistic ways.
But yes you’re right, it is. And I admit I’m a really shitty person.
I guess my problem is reducing the pool of people down to eggs and misogynistic dude bros, when in reality there’s a wide array of personalities and identities
No, that’s fair actually. That was dumb of me. I apologize…
We all live and learn. I was a total asshole at your age, I think you’re doing great 😂 Thank you for listening.
“Your age”? How dare you? 😭 /s
No but seriously, I transitioned from total asshole to total bitch, so this isn’t your fault at all, lol. I actually really am sorry.
Thank you 💜
Oh the number of Halloweens my egg ass wore a dress 🤭 I was pretty performative with my gender too so nobody suspected a thing it was a big old laugh. I wish I had had queer friends to even know that transitioning was a thing!
Queer Friends, FTW.
Someone go back in time and do this for me 27 years ago pls.
I feel you on that 😔
discreetly, please
That first case feels like a violation of the Egg Prime Directive.
The Egg Prime Directive is highly controversial. Personally, I think it’s callous and destructive, and has probably cost lives. I’m trans, and I welcome younger relatives to talk about gender with Me. I always make sure to tell them that they get to choose their gender, whatever they want it to be. We’ve already had a trans suicide in the family.
'Cause it is!
cis dude already dressed as a girl as a joke, so probably would take trans material as an extension of the joke
