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#+title : Is cis a slur
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Cis is literally just the antonym of [[id:52380883-51c6-4736-8dfb-794ce19d54e2 ][Trans ]]. It is not a [[id:d4035c81-6be0-412c-855a-1c7973ed62c8 ][Slur ]] any more than [[id:1be7c81d-9398-4f77-9888-3cbad6e4a557][trans
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is a slur]].
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Oftentimes I see it used dismissively in the face of cis folks describing how
they think a trans person feels or ought to feel / behave, in which case that
intent is quite warranted. Other times it's a means of expressing exhaustion at
folks who simply don't "get it", and don't particularly need to. That is to say,
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cisgenderedness is a form of [[id:15a18226-dc73-4a2a-aa88-5f9b92a06471 ][Privilege ]].
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Gender-criticals or [[id:b08fb6b0-aedf-4066-ba3c-ca03aa323d33 ][TERFs ]] tend to avoid the adjective "cis", preferring to other
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transgender men and women as "transmen" and "transwomen", separate from the
(assumed cis) categories "men" and "women" ([[file:RuthPearceSonjaErikainen1978.org::*Terminology ][Terf wars: an introduction ]]).
