@NicolaElle There was a point at "peak kintsugi" when (allegedly) some people were smashing their bowls just to get them fixed and show them off.
For me, that's the bigger lesson
in kintsugi, which is that "ugly" and "beautiful" are not facts but judgments; the bowl boldly shows its history of having walked through both of those judgments. But the bowl just...is itself.
To be any kind of trans is to likewise choose to walk through these worlds of judgment and see them for what they are.