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Why do people use the term "cisgender" if straight people find it offensive?
It's really odd that people try to recreate language to come up with some oddball new term to describe something that there is already a perfectly good term for. The majority of "straight" people find the term cisgender to be offensive, often because it is used in an offensive manner by militant LBGTQBBQLOL persons in their failed crusade to pretend they are normal. Why then do they continue to use the term?
1) You don't get to "pick" what other people find offensive. Sound familiar?
2) Just use the word straight. It's that simple. It is a one syllable word that is easier to say. Just because you feel it makes 'transgender' sound more legitimate to have an alternating word with 'gender' in it, if that's the case, then say 'straight-gender'. There, problem solved.
6 Answers
- ElizabethLv 72 weeks ago
CISGENDER is only used within a conversation concerning transgender people. It is the way to distinguish the two groups. If you find it 'offensive', you can entirely avoid it by not participating in a discussion concerning transgender people.
- nineteenthlyLv 72 weeks ago
Cis is an entirely descriptive term used in other contexts, e.g. Cislunar space, cis fats.
- Anonymous2 weeks ago
Cisgender means the opposite of transgender. It is not another word for "straight".
There are going to be people offended by pretty much every term. The term "cisgender" was not created to be offensive and is not considered to be offensive term except by a handful of people like you. As a cis person, I like the term. It makes it easy when talking about trans and cis people. I can say "cis" instead of "not trans".
Cisgender does not mean straight. It means you gender matches your sex. It has nothing to do with a persons sexuality.
Nobody is picking what you find offensive. We are pointing out that just because someone finds something offensive does not make the term actually offensive and mean nobody can use it. You will find people out there that are offended by almost every term even if the term is not actually offensive. Some people get offended by the term "short". Is it now an offensive word that we should stop using?
- Anonymous2 weeks ago
There is literally nothing offensive with the word "cisgender" and it takes a real snowflake to find it offensive.
Context can make it offensive the same way some people refer to transgenders. But it is the usage of the term not the term itself that makes it an insult.
And there has not been a perfectly good term to use before cisgender. "Straight" is meaningless as there are lots of straight transgender people.
And besides, there is no such thing as normal as everybody is different. Height, weight, hair, sexuality, gender, personality, taste etc. Either we are all normal or none of us are.
- Anonymous2 weeks ago
"Why do people use the term "cisgender" if SOME straight people find it offensive?"
Fixed your question.
SOME people are always going to hate change of any kind.
We can't let SOME people hold back progress for the rest of us.
You are one of those SOME.
You are NOT a majority.
You are part of a whiny, bigoted minority.
