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Researcher Who Coined 'Cis' Reacts To Elon Musk Labeling It 'A Slur' (www.huffpost.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't quite understand, if cis is a slur, what should we call people who have the same gender as their birth certificates? Is there an alternative name for it?

[–] Adanisi 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The bigots probably want "normal" to be that word. Like, an "I'm normal and you're not normal" sort of thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's the closest thing I can tell. They want either "normal" or just to reserve the term "woman" or "man" for cisgender people, and refuse to even acknowledge trans identities at all.

I mean, the guy that Elon is quoting here, ostensibly "protecting" objects to the word cis because he objects to trans people's existence in general.