The prime directive doesn’t apply to you. You already questioned your gender and found the truth. In Star Trek terms, you’re a warp-capable society. Even if you decided to stay on your home planet.
The egg prime directive is, according to the name, about hiding information from people who haven’t thought about it.
The cost of misgendering a cis person is that they feel weird. The cost of maintaining the prime directive for an egg is they might commit suicide.
The cost of misgendering a cis person is that they feel weird.
Let’s be clear that is an assumption. I understand that there is a shit ton of fake astroturfing going on, but not every single story of detransistioning is lies.
For a more personal experience point to this:
When I was a teen, transness wasn’t really talked about, so a cis male being un-masculine “had to” mean they were gay.
Cards on the table, I’m bisexual. But only for a single digit number of men. I’m effectively cishet.
But with how many times I heard that I must be gay, from bullies, from well meaning folks, from strangers… it added significant additional turmoil to my toughest times as a teen. Suicidal ideation tough times.
And now, over a decade and a half later, I’m still not a particularly masculine man in a standard ass cishet marriage with a kid. And I’m happy and comfortable in my identity.
So I have a tough time hearing this repeated narrative of “there’s no downsides!”
The prime directive doesn’t apply to you. You already questioned your gender and found the truth. In Star Trek terms, you’re a warp-capable society. Even if you decided to stay on your home planet.
The egg prime directive is, according to the name, about hiding information from people who haven’t thought about it.
The cost of misgendering a cis person is that they feel weird. The cost of maintaining the prime directive for an egg is they might commit suicide.
Let’s be clear that is an assumption. I understand that there is a shit ton of fake astroturfing going on, but not every single story of detransistioning is lies.
For a more personal experience point to this:
When I was a teen, transness wasn’t really talked about, so a cis male being un-masculine “had to” mean they were gay.
Cards on the table, I’m bisexual. But only for a single digit number of men. I’m effectively cishet.
But with how many times I heard that I must be gay, from bullies, from well meaning folks, from strangers… it added significant additional turmoil to my toughest times as a teen. Suicidal ideation tough times.
And now, over a decade and a half later, I’m still not a particularly masculine man in a standard ass cishet marriage with a kid. And I’m happy and comfortable in my identity.
So I have a tough time hearing this repeated narrative of “there’s no downsides!”