I thought that’s what these were for a while too. If someone throws one you’re wondering until the grand revelation whether they’re going to fully switch or go non-binary, and sometimes at the end they reveal that they’re just staying as they are (but all choices are valid and everyone had a lovely party anyway).

I mean, if the kind of friends and family you’d invite to a gender reveal party don’t take you seriously about what you say your gender is, why would a party change their minds and why are they still in your life? I mean go for it but it sounds like a weird uncomfortable situation. If you were publicly questioning yourself for a while and experimenting and settle on being cis, hell yea go for it. If you just see trans people doing it and want to undermine them “all lives matter” style, then that’d pretty shitty but you do you.

All that being said, I don’t know any trans people who threw a party when they came out, much less called it a gender reveal party. I think the typical experience is anxiously gradually letting more and more family and friends in on it, certainly has been the experience for me

As long as it’s not thinly-veiled transphobia, it sounds like as good a reason as any.

Any excuse for a party, I say go for it.

Now I’m imagining a very masculine-presenting cis man inviting everyone to their big gender reveal party, only to anti-climactically reveal that they identify as a man.