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[–]loveSloaneDebate King 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It would be… if men and women were genders. But since they aren’t…

[–]peakingatthemomentTranssexual (natal male), HSTS[M] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I feel like, similar to misgendering rules, it should be about users and not general statements. I feel if we made it about general statements, we’d have to make misgendering rules that way too to be consistent and I don’t think we should do that. Hopefully, everyone can deal with the occasional QT user using “cis” in a general way. I still think we should discourage any use and that is why I left the language in the sidebar very general.

Part of what we debate is whether is man/woman is a gender word or sex words. Rules shouldn’t be based on seeing that only one way.

[–]loveSloaneDebate King 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Im totally just being petty lol

GB in particular has a habit of insisting that everyone, even the poster she is replying to, has a gender identity.

I think I’d be fine to ignore the blanket statements, but the issue becomes real when people (GB) continue to use the “everyone is cis or trans/has a gender identity” as their main argument even after we literally say that we don’t and not everyone does.

Even pro trans sites don’t list “man” or “woman” as genders, so I think despite be just being petty, technically there is a huge difference with regards to the concept of misgendering when it comes to calling a trans person the sexed term related to their sex and forcing the label of “cis” onto literally everyone who isn’t trans or according to GB, not trans or agender.

[–]peakingatthemomentTranssexual (natal male), HSTS 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If someone is behaving inappropriately, mods can still get involved.