A Pun, or Play on Words

[baratron]

I finally came up with a chemistry pun to explain how my gender works.

I've felt for a while like the cis/trans binary doesn't work for me. Despite being female assigned at birth, I'm not really cis because some of the time I don't feel female. But nor do I feel like I can call myself trans because I'm happy with my body at other times.

So I'm cis but prone to radical isomerisation.

It works because cis/trans isomerisation is a radical mechanism, but also because "radical" has a meaning in English outside of science.

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[barakta]

*giggles*