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.