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footsteps-on-the-dance-floor · 4 days ago

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The thing about calling someone an "egg" is that it's extremely condescending. If an egg is someone who is transgender but hasn't realised it yet, then calling someone and egg is not just saying "hey I bet this person is actually transgender" it's saying "hey I bet this person doesn't understand themself"

it's SO rude. Trans people can have their own reason for not being out, or for not transitioning, or for not being 100% public about their sexuality/gender and it is not just about not understanding themself.

#held out from making this post for 10 years bc i wanted to avoid getting involved in the most thoughtless unkind discourse I've ever read #if you make egg jokes about people who aren't out yr like #literally doing the thing tabloid newspapers do about celebs sexuality #whilst also being as condescending as humanly possibly #sometimes someone is trans and not out #and actually DOES understand themself #you're not being helpful or kind for assuming otherwise #it's so patronising and rude #also if you reference that star trek thing in reply to this post then I'm legally allowed to kill you #read the post #it's not about that

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