Me: I don’t recognise the term ‘cis’. Please don’t call me it. Trans activist: Tough. You can’t change who you are or how others see you. Me: Well…this is awkward…

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[–]ClassroomPast6178 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

James Esses is very thoughtful and worth listening to.

But his point in that tweet is not a new one, it has been pointed out before that the imposition of “cis” on normal people is contrary to the entire philosophy on which troonery is built. It is nice to see it being mentioned again especially after what Elon has done.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes there are actually 2 points within the cis label. 1 is the fact that you are forced into the framework of that ideology where you must accept that gender identities exist in the first place. The other is that they do this weird thing where they find way to refer to transgender people as "man" or "woman" then otherize regular people as cisman or ciswoman.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The other is that they do this weird thing where they find way to refer to transgender people as "man" or "woman" then otherize regular people as cisman or ciswoman.

Trying to make themselves the baseline instead of the outliers. Because then it's harder to deny them what they feel are their "rights."