A situation in which something or someone is revealed to be other than assumed/expected to be, particularly with regard to gender identity.
Origin
From the 1992 film The Crying Game, which features a scene in which a man discovers that his lover, implicitly presented up to that point as a cis woman, is in fact a pre-op/non-optrans woman.
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