\nIt’s fortunate that trans “egg” discourse has died down, because going around seeing who can be “transed” (a verb) is not really the appropriate approach.
It looks really suspicious perceived by outsiders and downright depraved if you already are opposed to or skeptical of the movement.
Which explains precisely why it’s almost exclusively used within very insular trans communities, AFAIK.
\u2018Eggers\u2019 are just to transgendered people, community and discourse what, \u2018political lesbians\u2019 are to the feminist and LGBT discourse.
The parallels are pretty stark. Political lesbians adopted Marxism and applied it to biological sex and human sexuality, determined that there could be no ethical sex under patriarchy the same as there could be no ethical consumption under capitalism, so all binary sexed sexual relations were tantamount to exploitation- thus, no sex with a man could be anything but rape.
Eggers take a similar extremist view, but for gender. They deny the biological underpinnings as any social constructionist does and primary and secondary sexual characteristics to them are just aesthetics to change for the arbitrary uniform of gender. Eggers believe, much like the political lesbians did, that you could be \u201cconvinced\u201d to become trans (in the case of political lesbians, will yourself to be gay.)
The political lesbians soon realized, no, you can\u2019t force yourself to be gay. There are hard wired neurological mechanisms behind sexuality, gay or straight. At best you could hurt yourself until you\u2019re better able to tolerate sex, and maybe perform that way for some sort of degredation thrill, but it\u2019s not the same thing as actually being sexually attracted to what you\u2019re having sex with. A lot of drug abusers experience the same thing, a lot of sex workers too. It\u2019s not the same thing as sexual orientation when you just burn out your ability to process feelings in order to perform sex like it\u2019s an act on stage.
And similarly with \u2018egg\u2019 discourse among transgendered people. \u2018Eggs\u2019, like political lesbians, believe transgenderedness is cultural and can be imposed on someone. That you can just adopt or choose to become that way. They treat, \u201cqueerness\u201d like a religion or a hobby. And define that as being trans. It\u2019s actally a very transphobic view of how it works, because it\u2019s like adopting the idea to be trans is to be a pervert, therefore all perverts are trans and that\u2019s normal.
I don\u2019t trust people that unironically use expressions like, \u2018an uncracked egg,\u2019 to refer to people they suspect could be brought into their culture. Because they\u2019re just like the people that thought, for better or worse, being gay was something you could spread or corrupt people into being through social and psychological manipulation, grooming and cultivation. They\u2019re effectively promising to lie to someone about what gender is and how they identify with it and give them a psychological complex about gender and their own relation to it, for… a sexual thrill. And what they see as \u201cprogressivism.\u201d They\u2019re no different from the hypervigilant conservative parents trying to deny their child, \u201cLGBT queerness\u201d in cultural influences, in the hopes they\u2019ll grow up straight and cis.
What do you make of the @kontextmaschine Covid-induced bisexuality arc?
Okay, @rametarin, let me fill you in:
I, a bloke with cock & balls, actually identified as a girl in adolescence in the ‘90s (being aware of the previous Renee Richards/Wendy Carlos Williams '70s Transgender Moment).
I eventually stopped, which I explained (to myself, others if asked) in terms that going through a gender transition (in like 1998) wouldn’t bring me anything like the experiences of my female classmates, or even a particularly good life at all.
If there had been anything like the environment of even the early 2010s, maybe I wouldn’t have. (When people said people transitioning were getting another chance at adolescence, I think they were underweighting the “you find an online community around your one subculture and it becomes your whole world” angle.)
So I’d say “egg cracked, it’s a cock”.
Oh, also, I wanted to be bisexual, tried “bihacking” myself, but discovered I was in fact Kinsey 0 pure heterosexual. Because I experimented with boys, and the results were “no”.
So forward to my late 30s, Covid happens, I caught it before vaccines existed, it goes “Long” in my brain and gives me a totally new personality. That is bisexual. (Which is probably the weirdest single part but well below 50% of the total weirdness)
And what that is, is “boy” has been added alongside “girl” on the list of “genders I can see value in”. Which doesn’t just matter for sexual stuff, it means I am just psyched to be a boy, in what I am pretty sure is “gender euphoria”. Earlier today I picked up a load of topsoil in my pickup truck and spread it in my yard by straining (and building!) the muscles of my shirtless, powerful male body and it was glorious in ways that have nothing to do with progression towards orgasm.
Which leads me to suspect that both the “transbian” AND fujoshi-turned-trans-man phenomena are similarly a matter of Kinsey 0s who can only see value in the opposite of their ah, assigned-at-birth gender wanting to value their selves.
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