Why More People Are Coming Out as Trans in the Pandemic

Trans experiences of isolation reveal what it really takes to come out

Bax J Ferguson
Elemental
Published in
6 min readFeb 3, 2021

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Illustration by Mojo Wang for Elemental

It has been years since my egg cracked.

In community parlance, an “egg” refers to a transgender person who doesn’t quite yet realize they are trans. We “crack” when that first realization happens — oh wait! what if?

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Bax J Ferguson
Elemental

Bax is a journalist, essayist, content marketing writer, fiction author, emerging photographer and aspiring illustrator. (Pronouns: they/he)