QT: What rights don’t trans people have?

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[–]loveSloaneDebate King 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (46 children)

No, they just aren’t trans

[–]GenderbenderShe/her/hers 2 insightful - 9 fun2 insightful - 8 fun3 insightful - 9 fun -  (45 children)

We call them cis.

[–]loveSloaneDebate King 21 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 0 fun22 insightful - 1 fun -  (44 children)

No. They just aren’t trans. It makes no sense to refer to someone by their lack of a mental illness/drastic cosmetic surgeries made up sense of identity

[–]GenderbenderShe/her/hers 2 insightful - 8 fun2 insightful - 7 fun3 insightful - 8 fun -  (43 children)

Many groups have names for "outsiders". The deaf call hearing people hearing people. We call non-disabled people able-bodied. Jews call non-Jews goy/goyim.

[–]loveSloaneDebate King 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (18 children)

Sure. your “group” can refer to people inaccurately if they want to. I mean, they refer to themselves inaccurately constantly and try to force the rest of us to as well, so there’s no reason to expect them not to do the same to others lol

That doesn’t mean that cis just means not trans, a quick internet search shows what cis means and what the implications behind it are.

Deaf people can and do also often say “not deaf”

Able bodied is a phrase I hear often so I agree there

Jews can and often do say that someone/something is “not Jewish”

The difference is that there’s an implication behind calling someone cis, the word literally means that we have a gender identity.

when you refer to someone who isn’t deaf as a “hearing person” all you’re saying is that the person can hear/isn’t deaf, nothing more.

when you refer to someone as “able bodied” all you’re saying is that they aren’t disabled, nothing more.

when you call someone cis it’s done to validate trans people’s identities and it reaffirms a toxic, homophobic, and misogynistic ideology.

So, once again and not surprisingly so, your examples don’t work because the things you compare to the mentally ill community you stan so hard aren’t comparable at all.

[–]GenderbenderShe/her/hers 2 insightful - 8 fun2 insightful - 7 fun3 insightful - 8 fun -  (17 children)

Deaf and HOH people often use the term hearing people to refer to non-deaf/HOH people.

Yes we disabled people may use the term able-bodied and abled.

We do use the term non-Jews, because most non-Jews don't know the meaning of the terms goy/goyim. Goyim means nations in Hebrew, but Jews use the term in their communities to refer to non-Jews.

Cis merely means you aren't trans. Transgenderism is not a mental illness. Many trans people physically transition and most are satisfied with the results. Some regret it. I am actually mentally ill. I have bipolar, OCD and ADHD.

[–]loveSloaneDebate King 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (15 children)

I genuinely can’t tell if you truly don’t get what I’m saying or just don’t want to address it. I know I asked this elsewhere but I feel like it’s a question I have often with you.

My point is that cis doesn’t just translate to “not trans” the same way that “hearing” translates to “not deaf”.

If the trans community wants to use cis to just mean “not trans” (which is decidedly NOT how they are using it but I’ll pretend) that’s their thing and Idgaf, but it’s not what the word means and it’s not even how tras explain the word to us when they want to educate us.

The physical state of having given yourself a cross sex hormonal imbalance and possibly also having undergone drastic cosmetic surgeries is not a mental illness because it’s a physical state. So it can’t be.

However the reasons that people take those steps to “transition” are all so obviously deeply rooted in mental illness that Im certain you knew what I meant by what I said

I understand you’re mentally ill, so is the trans community- which was my point.

[–]GenderbenderShe/her/hers 2 insightful - 7 fun2 insightful - 6 fun3 insightful - 7 fun -  (14 children)

Then what does cis mean in this society?

Also, HRT is not a hormonal imbalance.

[–]loveSloaneDebate King 13 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

cisgender [sisˈjendər] ADJECTIVE denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender corresponds with their birth sex

Trans people don’t go on HRT they take cross sex hormones to intentionally give their bodies abnormal hormone levels. If a man who isn’t trans were put on cross sex hormones for long enough he’d develop “breasts” too, only for him it would be a negative side effect rather than the goal. So like I said- intentional hormonal imbalance.

[–][deleted] 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

Then what does cis mean in this society?

As you've been shown repeatedly, it's a conditional descriptor. You have to have a gender identity in order to be "cis." Gender identity is neither a commonly accepted nor scientific concept.

It's nothing more than in-group slang, and doesn't remotely apply to the populace at large.

[–]GenderbenderShe/her/hers 2 insightful - 7 fun2 insightful - 6 fun3 insightful - 7 fun -  (11 children)

You don't need to have a gender identity in order to be cis.

[–]strictly 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Cis merely means you aren't trans.

It doesn’t, otherwise you would be fine just calling us non-trans, instead you choose to refer to more narrow concept of having a gender identity at the same side of biological sex even though that’s not the case for us.

Trans people often say calling non-trans people people cisgender is like calling people straight. We don’t call non-homosexual people heterosexual indiscriminately though as not all non-homosexual people are heterosexual. It would be wrong of me to claim heterosexual just means “not homosexual” and call bisexual heterosexual, because heterosexual means more than not homosexual, it means being attracted to only the opposite sex. It’s the same way with cisgender, it implies way more than merely not transitioning.

[–]NeedMoreCoffeeGC 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What sloane means is that insisting people call themselves cis is like insisting an atheist calls himself a heretic, infidel or kafir. Atheists are not religious and do not see themselves as heritics and find it insulting.

We don't believe in gender identity so we can never call ourselves cis and we find it insulting. We believe in biological sex and that everyone has their own personality. We don't think "gender identity" is a thing.

[–]FlippyKingSadly this sub welcomes rape apologists and victim blaming. Bye! 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (22 children)

those are called slurs.

[–]GenderbenderShe/her/hers 2 insightful - 6 fun2 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 6 fun -  (21 children)

Hearing is a slur? Able-bodied is a slur?

[–]FlippyKingSadly this sub welcomes rape apologists and victim blaming. Bye! 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (20 children)

You pretending that those are what I'm referring to is pathetic, but that's all team QT ever is.

[–]GenderbenderShe/her/hers 1 insightful - 6 fun1 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 6 fun -  (19 children)

Then what are you referring to by "slur"?

[–]FlippyKingSadly this sub welcomes rape apologists and victim blaming. Bye! 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (18 children)

An easy to recognize words you use that might be slurs, and probably are slurs, are to consider the words you use for a group of people that they do not use for themselves. You have the words you prefer people use about trans people, and we have the words we would have been using otherwise. Similarly you have words you use for people I would just otherwise call normal or actual men or women. To call an actual man or woman something other than man or woman, or actual man or woman, or your normal everyday run of the mill man or woman, might be a slur. I'd rather not use the word you OBVIOUSLY know I'm referring to, you disingenuous dishonest POS*, so keep on pretending you don't know.

Footnotes: * Person of substance, as in a person who is materially real not imaginary and mostly likely having a sexed body which is also not imaginary.

[–]GenderbenderShe/her/hers 2 insightful - 6 fun2 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 6 fun -  (17 children)

A slur is an insulting or disparaging remark or innuendo. Calling someone cis is not an insult. Many cis people use the term to refer to themselves, including myself. When we coined the term, we meant it to mean someone whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth. It was not meant to be an insult. Cis people do not experience oppression for being cis.

Using terms like "actual men/women" or "normal men/women" implies that trans people aren't actual men/women. I call actual men and women men and women, and use cis and trans when the sub-categories are relevant.