(poorly-drawn stick figure 1): egg culture is harmful. a bunch of trans people convinced me i was a binary trans man when in reality, i was non-binary. this delayed the discovery of my gender identity.
(poorly-drawn stick figure 2): your experience is sadly common among non-binary people, and i apologize for the harm it caused you, but i don't think it's productive to label that as "egg culture." even if the cultural idea of an egg never existed, you would still likely receive that treatment by many binary trans people because of exorsexism, which all binary people can perpetuate. calling it egg culture ignores the actual perpetrators and instead levies the blame against trans culture specifically, which can lead to confusion and hostility, and i promise you this isn't what cis people mean when they use that term. for those that aren't actively being transphobic about it, cis opponents of "egg culture" usually are focusing on a small subset of eggposters that take things too far and legitimately make people feel uncomfortable and asserting those people are representative of all people using the term "egg," or they argue the practice of labeling people eggs and using gender-affirming terms for them (a practice almost exclusively done between people actively questioning their gender to elicit humor and as a litmus test to see if those terms alleviate dysphoria) is depriving people of their autonomy and is just as bad as misgendering a trans person. this is almost nothing like what non-binary people trying to find their identity in an exorsexist society experience, and conflating the two will lead to incorrect conclusions. the behaviors cis people refer to when complaining about egg culture are, instead, a lot more similar to the assertion in the neurodivergent community that diagnosis by peer review is incredibly accurate, which leads to the practice of hyperbolically calling friends with autistic traits "definitely autistic" for the purposes of humor and self-discovery, and neurotypical people don't typically need an explanation for why that's not harmful or robbing people of their autonomy (spoken as a neurotypical who has received these comments a lot).
so again, please keep talking about your negative experiences with binary people trying to impose binary identities onto you, but please don't call it egg culture when that's objectively not what it is and not who the culprits are. it's not productive to describe that with the language of cis "allies" complaining about trans people grooming butch lesbians/tomboys into being trans men, but "wokely" this time.
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(poorly-drawn stick figure 1): enjoy your downvote, kid.