cis person talking about trans stuff, vocab
I find the "egg" analogy for individual people realizing that they're trans and "hatching" cute and nice, but I'm missing a shorthand that I think is related. It's the thing where one person in a group transitions and other people see that it's possible and recontextualize a lot of feelings, and more people in the group transition afterward - it's like a geode breaking open, maybe. Is there a word the cool kids use for this?
cis person talking about trans stuff, vocab
@yomimono I haven't heard one, and I sort of suspect that it might be fraught territory for trying to coin a term. Given (and I apologize for making your day worse by letting you know about this thing) the transphobes who've been trying to coin "rapid-onset gender dysphoria".
And it sucks, because this is a cool thing! Both the queer version and the trans version, and both in how we help each other and how we find each other even while still in denial.
cis person talking about trans stuff, vocab
@lambdagrrl @yomimono I have seen a few trans people on Twitter do that, it's true.