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Nowhere in the poem does it say he's an egg.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12
From what I could find, this is when he started questioning his gender.
His name is humpty dumpty. Thats a fantastic egg name.
Thats all the evidence i need.
IIRC the original idea of Humpty Dumpty was a cannon on a wall that fell and broke apart.
If I follow the story, the king invested in the army (horses and men) rather than infrastructure repairs leading to the loss of the cannon.
It should have been Humpty Numpty