2026-03-25 15:47 UTC
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@mallory_sinn@hachyderm.io 2026-03-25 15:49
Please boost above! And please check above poll if you’re following #transgender #trans #transfem #transmasc #nonbinary #enby #TGD #queer
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@silvermoon82@wandering.shop 2026-03-25 15:55
@mallory_sinn@hachyderm.io I've started using ungendered pronouns etc just since Covid started. My son transitioned shortly after his high school came out of the first round of lockdowns.
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@forestine@sunny.garden 2026-03-25 16:00
@mallory_sinn@hachyderm.io hmm i picked the earliest one but i didn't think i was going to pursue any medical transition for about five years and since instead of an egg crack i had a slow drip of molasses for many years before that, i picked the year i found words for it and came out
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@alice@mk.nyaa.place 2026-03-25 16:04
@mallory_sinn@hachyderm.io mmm well, cracked on new year between 2021 and 2022 begin transitioning - eh, depending on the definition late 2022, mid-2023, or even 2014-2015 come out - depending on who it is, can be 2022, 2023, any later date or never didn't vote anything because none of the choices fit
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@shiraz@tech.lgbt 2026-03-25 16:06
@mallory_sinn@hachyderm.io It's not as simple as that with me. Back in 2012 I had a shrink interview and a formal diagnosis, but I didn't transition and didn't get the trans pathway info. I got onto that pathway in 2022 and completed transitioning in 2023 ... so I could tave ticked three different boxes!
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@theartlav@anarres.family 2026-03-25 16:06
@mallory_sinn@hachyderm.io Hm. I am sorta in the always knew cohort, but the "oh, that's a thing i can do" moment was in 2017. Which is my vote. Committed to it by 2019. And several technical derails later, started HRT in 2022. Don't have a general coming out date - it was a gradual process of accreting new friends who only knew the new me, and episodically updating the old ones.
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@Millie@hachyderm.io 2026-03-25 16:09
@mallory_sinn@hachyderm.io Cracked in 2019.... came out to wife a few months later Came out to my parents 2024 .. started transition in 2024.
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@eruonna@chaosfem.tw 2026-03-25 16:32
@mallory_sinn@hachyderm.io ~2003 - first questioned if I might be trans 2021 - said out loud that I was trans and started transition (what I chose) Somewhere in between, I think it became clear to me that I probably was trans, but I don't know when, and there was always some part of me that clung to denial and avoidance. I've been thinking about this recently because the fifth anniversary is coming up
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@SecondUniverse@autistics.life 2026-03-25 16:43
@mallory_sinn@hachyderm.io "2015 or earlier"? Eureka moment: 1984/5 Start coming out: 1988 Begin transition: 1991
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@Tattie@eldritch.cafe 2026-03-25 16:49
@mallory_sinn@hachyderm.io two egg cracks and one coming out all pre-2015, so that's what I selected. Didn't start transition itself until 2021 tho.
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@NicolaElle@chaosfem.tw 2026-03-25 16:51
@mallory_sinn@hachyderm.io My egg cracked in 1997. I started transitioning in 2019. I publicly came out in 2022. So... three out of four? 🤷♀️
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@disorderlyf@todon.eu 2026-03-25 17:29
@mallory_sinn@hachyderm.io See, my egg cracked long before I got HRT. If we're going by egg cracking, I've known I was trans for a decade longer. I don't think people realise just how much of us knew when we were children but had to bury that shit deep and suffer in ways that scar us for the rest of our lives until the second the clock strikes midnight on our 18th birthday. I figured out I was trans in 2009. I got on HRT in 2017. I'm not even sure if I had accepting parents at the time if I could've started in 2009. I sure as fuck couldn't now.
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@EnaWasHere@tech.lgbt 2026-03-25 18:16
@mallory_sinn@hachyderm.io oooooh this is hard to answer because it's an ongoing thing for me, and I definitely went through steps. But I guess I started questioning around 2021? Later I came out to some people and I haven't started transitioning in any meaningful way yet. My egg cracking moment might be somewhere there? I'm not even sure I can claim my egg cracked. The jury is still deliberating, kinda.
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@burnoutqueen@todon.nl 2026-03-25 18:58
@mallory_sinn@hachyderm.io I knew when I was a kid but I only began actually transitioning recently
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@AdmiralMemo@mastodon.social 2026-03-25 19:07
@mallory_sinn@hachyderm.io This is one of the reasons I love Mastodon polls: the "View Results" button. I'm not trans, but I am definitely interested in the results of this.
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@gcvsa@mstdn.plus 2026-03-25 19:34
@mallory_sinn@hachyderm.io This poll makes me wonder what you think the age demographics of the #Fediverse look like.
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@koalou@lgbtqia.space 2026-03-25 20:38
@mallory_sinn@hachyderm.io Could have figured it out way earlier¹ if I had known about trans and enby people but I only really understood trans-identity in August 2021… and promptly² understood that I couldn't deny it anymore. First CO on TDoR³ 2021 to the only trans girl I knew as such offline. Changed GP in August 2022 to one known to be trans friendly (she even had stopped taking new cis patients) and told her I wanted HRT right from the start. But because I was still so unsure (what if I was faking it to have a reason to say I'm queer⁴? What if taking HRT doesn't help⁵? etc.), I only actually started in November 2022. And had to stop two days later 🫠 Resumed 3 weeks later and haven't stopped since (switched from gel to injections in January 2026) 1: I think I started wanted to be reborn as a girl in 2004 or 2005, although I thought I would be as bad at being a girl as at being a boy 😅 I don't have much memories from before ~2003 so can't talk to my relation to gender prior to that. 2: it "only" took a bit under 2 weeks and going through the GDB (thanks, Jocelyn! (Twipped)) with a highlighter 🙈 Funny enough, I only realised *afterward* that I had been putting myself to sleep for a few months by picturing waking up the next day as a woman and what I'd do 🤭 then I started remembering the previous times I had wanted to be a girl :') (there were no signs!) 3: either worst or best day to do that. 4: my dad is gay (and, I suspect, a transfem in deep denial) and my mom is bi, so I thought I only wanted to belong amongst queer people. 5: it did… applied the first dose of gel in the evening, was already feeling better the next day 🤭
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@Drquuxum@tech.lgbt 2026-03-26 01:22
@mallory_sinn@hachyderm.io Egg finally cracked October 2014; began HRT 30 June 2015; came out 8 January 2016.
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@reference_material@tech.lgbt 2026-03-26 03:07
@mallory_sinn@hachyderm.io 2017 to crack the puzzle and be in a position mentally, financially and socially.
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@shadowfals@toot.cat 2026-03-26 14:48
@mallory_sinn@hachyderm.io 1990s: was GNC (not the phrase used back then), fought social suppression and body dysphoria. aughts: started(?) HRT (not the phrase used and this excludes an obscure treatment) but was forced to take the wrong hormones (matching gender assigned at birth). start of 2010s: learned there are terms for what I was and am, found supposedly supportive groups; tried to come out and seek medical help; dealt with transphobic, homophobic, and sexist BS from family, friends, social (art & writing) group members, coworkers, work, supervisors, doctors, politicians, and media. later 2010s: more of the same except worse. 2020+: less direct social interaction, more access to telehealth services, started GAHT/HRT. No matter how much I've seen it, I don't really understand the egg metaphor— something to do with social media profiles, or is it "born again" beliefs? What I know is we take what we get. Some trans people are supported and transition smoothly to focus on other areas of life without constant drama. Many of us here pick up pieces of the resources we can reach and make do with them. The fediverse could count as a resource.
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@moriel@chaosfem.tw 2026-03-26 18:53
@mallory_sinn@hachyderm.io Oh my, the poll options are so funny to me. i came out in 1989, started transition in 1994. :D