roam/20200809222035-is_cis_a_slur.org

#+title: Is cis a slur

Cis is literally just the antonym of [[file:20210101025247-transgender.org][Trans]]. It is not a [[file:20210104201824-slur.org][Slur]] any more than [[file:20200809221723-is_trans_a_slur.org][trans
is a slur]].

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,
cisgenderedness is a form of [[file:20200809222134-privilege.org][Privilege]].

Gender-criticals or [[file:20210105230905-trans_exclusionary_radical_feminists.org][TERFs]] tend to avoid the adjective "cis", preferring to other
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]]).