How NOT to Come Out to your Wife as Transgender
Continuing on from my previous article, ‘Cracks’, which was about how I figured out I was trans; this article is about what happened next. It was tumultuous but the story does have a happy ending. I’m hoping this will help others who are in a ‘straight-passing’ relationship or marriage when they realize they aren’t cisgender.
Cracks - How I Figured out I was a Trans Woman
Among the trans community, there is a term that refers to the moment when you realize you are transgender as “your egg cracking”. For some of us there are splinters that appear in our eggshells, slowly spreading across the surface as we incubate, but not quite cracking open. Most of us don’t even know that we’re in an eggshell at all, until we’re blinded by the light of the outside world.
My egg cracked open before I was ready and I duct taped that shit shut, REAL FAST.