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X now treats the term cisgender as a slur (www.engadget.com)

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"Free speech absolutist"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

We call him that sarcastically but idiots see it and think "he really is!" Free speech silencer should come up whenever someone searches for Elon Musk.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So genders are a slur now? Guess it's they/them for everyone. Can't be racist if you're neutrally wrong.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

We could also just change the terms. Transgender becomes heterogender, and cisgender becomes homogender. Bit of a mouthful but since homo and hetero are in the common vernacular, it's bound to erase all confusion that cis- and trans- comes with.

[+] [email protected] -18 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Actually I unironically think this is right. Sexuality is a spectrum right? Then stop adding more and more stupid labels that just divide people and are wrong half the time anyway.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Good call, that's why I refuse to learn people's names. It's just a stupid label I might get wrong sometimes and divides people, so why would I bother learning someone's name?

(I'm being sarcastic, labels and pronouns are not this complex, just call people what they ask to be called)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Gender isn't sexuality.

The prefixes cis- and trans- are rooted in Latin, and is commonly used in chemistry to describe the geometry of a molecule. The terms mean "this side of" and "opposite side of" respectively. It's the same trans you see in "transatlantic", as in "far side of the atlantic ocean", and indeed the word "cisatlantic" is also in the dictionary.

So that's precisely what trans-and-cisgender means. A cisgender person is someone who identifies "on the same side" of the gender they were assigned at birth, ergo they identify as their birthgender.

They're not terms you need to identify with or use. They're simply terms used to make a clear distinction in conversation where such a distinction is necessary.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Damn.. this is a good explanation. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Awe, poor you having to learn new words.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

Cissies are so sensitive

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Here's a thought.

#STOP USING HIS SHITTY SITE

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

How can I stop if I never started?

[+] [email protected] -37 points 5 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

I don't like sex. Never did and never will. So I demand it to banned!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Do you dislike the term "transgender"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That was useful information

[+] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Thats like complaining about the term "hetero".

[+] [email protected] -7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just saying that if the LGBTQI+ community doesnt like a word, it very quickly becomes unacceptable to use. But if I dont like a word I get told to suck it up because thats what I am...

"When a marginalized group doesn't like being called something deliberately hurtful, it becomes unacceptable. But how come no one cares that I don't like how a word sounds phonetically?? That's the same!!"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I suppose technically instead of transgender we could use heterogender, meaning we'd say homogender instead of cisgender. The only time you'd use these terms (and similar ones, like AFAB/AMAB) is in specific situations where the nuance distinguishing the two matters.

You don't have to use the terms either. It's fully acceptable to just call people men and women, particularly in contexts where their assigned sex doesn't matter, which I'd wager for most people is pretty much all the time.