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Grow a pair

Secret was an app that allowed people to share messages anonymously within their circle of friends, friends of friends, and publicly. [Wikipedia] It got a lot of press when it launched in early 2014; here’s a New York Times article about it from March of that year.

On , I posted the sentence At some point I should really grow a pair of ovaries and admit to everyone I'm transgender.

I got two comments:

A screenshot of a post on Secret, a 2014 iOS app that allowed people to post anonymously. The body of the post is the text “At some point I should really grow a pair of ovaries and admit to everyone I'm transgender.” There are two comments on the post. The first reads “Lots of us already have a good idea you are. Just waiting to be able to talk to you about it.” and the second reads “Go for it, friend! I would take you to Sephora to celebrate.”