Ginger Hawthorne

my blog about myself, gender and politics

My gender evolution

31 Mar 2025

A couple years ago, I wrote about coming out as bigender. Since then, I’ve learned more about myself, faced more of my fears, rejected more of the harmful stereotypes that kept me from accepting myself as a transgender woman. This my story.

How my egg cracked

30 Mar 2025

Spend some time around trans folks, and you’re likely to hear us talking about our eggs and how they cracked. It’s a simple metaphor, where our egg is our life before discovering we’re trans, and the crack is the moment that manifested that discovery. We all have our story, and this one’s mine.

My favorite color is purple

25 Mar 2025

My favorite color is purple. My favorite color is purple. That may sound simple, but for me, that revelation took 35 years of suffering and self discovery.

What Pride means to me

20 May 2023

I’m not the first to say this, but I also think it’s important to say it in my own words, for my own sake.

Call me Ginger

31 Mar 2023

Today’s the International Trans Day of Visibility, and I’d like to give y’all some visibility into the current state of my life.