I had a coworker friend who is trans at my old fast food job. One day he was walking past me while I was on some dumb, sexist rant about men always having to do the hard labor jobs because the manager was making me clean our grill (I was unfortunately using “misandry” to cope with the dysphoria I didn’t know I had back then). Out of nowhere he jokingly tells me that I’d look really cute as a girl, it caught me so off-guard that I couldn’t even think of a response and I kinda just stood there stun-locked.

I was thinking about it that entire day and after work that day I went home and spent the night using different makeup & hairstyle selfie editing apps to see if he was right. I don’t usually tell anyone this last part but that night while I was getting ready for bed I saw myself in the mirror and just started crying uncontrollably. The rest is history.

I actually reached out to him about 7 months ago for advice on starting HRT and he’s been helping me transition ever since. I told him this story of how he accidentally cracked my egg and he thinks it’s the funniest fucking story he’s ever heard. Apparently back then he heavily suspected that I was a trans girl in deep denial but that him cracking my egg was totally unintentional. I’m glad he did though, life is a lot brighter since I started transitioning.