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[–]BiologyIsReal[M] 15 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Hey, u/Porcelain_Quetzal, good to see you want take a more active role here. At the same time, though, I question your decision of wanting to change the rules without consulting with the other mods first, especially given you've mostly absentee for months. If you've talked to us, you would have known that what you say about "cis" has not been happening at all. Given that u/grixit never updated the sidebar with the "new rules", it's not possible to enforce the rule of not using "cis". Indeed, QT users have kept using the word, both as a concept and a to refer to other users, and they have not been punished for it. Not a single time.

In other words, in practise the rules have no changed: we cannot "misgender" trans identified users, but they and other QT users can call us "cis" not matter how many times we say we are not "cis". And I still think this is not fair.

As for trans identified male or female, we need to be able to express our ideas, too, you know? The sidebar suggest natal male or female, but many users of either side were not satisfied with those terms: GC because the word natal is redundant, and QT because it still refers to sex just like trans identified male or female do.

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

not matter how many times we say we are not "cis"

When word is created outsied of group, never used inside group and used to call that group against their will - almost always such word is a slur.