egg prime directive
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The principle against telling someone who is questioning their gender identity whether or not one suspects that they are transgender.
Informal
Example Sentences
- "I’m sure there are some trans people out there who don’t follow the Egg Prime Directive, but I haven’t met them. It’s one of the only things that seems to unify the whole trans community, myself included. Even though I wanted my own external validation more than anything, I now see that true acceptance could have only come from within. The only person who can tell you that you are trans is yourself."
- "I know people who I myself hurt by breaking the Egg Prime Directive, before I understood how important it was. I’ve seen the havoc that that knowledge, when it’s not safe for the person to know, has wreaked on their life."
- "This is the motivation for the other primary justification for the Egg Prime Directive: that it is irresponsible to crack someone’s egg when you are unable to help them through the transition process. This reasoning is far more justifiable than the last, but it is still incomplete."
Etymology
From egg (“a person regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, who has not yet come out as transgender, or who is in the early stages of transitioning”) + prime directive, in reference to the Prime Directive from media franchise Star Trek.
Usage
Inflected Forms
the egg prime directive (canonical)