Cis People Are Literally Dying To Reveal Babies’ Genitals

Pax Ahimsa Gethen
2 min readOct 30, 2019
Video screenshot showing a billow of pink smoke and the caption “Second gender reveal explosion in two days”.
“Second gender reveal explosion in two days”. Screenshot from KCCI, Des Moines, Iowa, October 29, 2019.

Cisgender people are taking their efforts to enforce the gender binary to new heights. Desperate to ensure friends and family members that their future child will most definitely be a GIRL (pink!) or BOY (blue!), they are creating and detonating actual explosives to announce this information. Store-bought and homemade devices— such as the “Tannerite gender reveal boom box kit” pictured above…

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Pax Ahimsa Gethen

Queer agender trans male. Black vegan atheist, pacifist. Pronouns: they/them/their. funcrunch.org, patreon.com/funcrunch