CISGender

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SmallTown

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Now I’m as liberal and free minded as the next man but has the term CIS taken the transgender rights thing too far? Maybe I’m getting old but it seems ludicrous to me to assign a term for just people who haven’t had a sex change. I don’t get it.
Maybe it’s “woke”?
 
I agree. When I first heard the term I wondered if it was another variant on the lgbtqih whatever spectrum. 94% of the population is not that, it’s such a high percentage it shouldn’t need a term of its own in everyday parlance.
 
"Now I’m as liberal and free minded as the next man but has the term CIS taken the transgender rights thing too far?

You think the term CIS is taking things a bit far, how about losing your job because you believe that men can't become women or being called a hate organisation because you want to keep people with penises out of womens refuges?
 
BoroBosco said:
"Now I’m as liberal and free minded as the next man but has the term CIS taken the transgender rights thing too far?

You think the term CIS is taking things a bit far, how about losing your job because you believe that men can't become women or being called a hate organisation because you want to keep people with penises out of womens refuges?
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You misunderstand. I don't think transgender rights are too far. I just think the CIS phrase is ridiculous. It seems to have been invented as an insult which makes the transgender community as bad as the people they complain about. It's never been necessary to have a phrase to describe people who haven't switched gender, they are just people. it isn't necessary
 
I've no problem with the term itself, but I do have a problem with its increasing use by some of the more militant elements of the transgender community as a collectively perjorative, almost abusive term for the vast majority of society, many of whom are happy to be as inclusive as you could ever want.
 
It's the opposite of trans in Latin. Cis = "this side of", trans = "on the other side of".

The thing that annoys me most about this whole issue is the people that use it bemoan the fact that society isn't inclusive enough and that they are therefore excluded because of being trans. By labelling themselves and everyone else distinctly means that they themselves are not being exclusive.

I definitely see it used as an insult far more than as merely a descriptive term.
 
Absolutely this. It's a hypocrisy. "Oh we just want to be treat as equals. Which is why we give people who aren't like us a new name."
 
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