B.C. (Before Crack)

There is a beautiful term used in the transgender community about your egg being cracked. Once you’ve cracked an egg, you can’t un-crack that egg. I grew up not knowing a lot about gender identity or the queer community. I was exposed to it, but I didn’t have any direct examples in my community. All I knew is that I was different. I was strange. I was me, and that was all that mattered.