X now considers the term “cisgender” a slur. On Tuesday, the platform reportedly began posting an official warning that the LGBTQ-inclusive terms could result in a ban from the platform.
I suppose technically instead of transgender we could use heterogender, meaning we’d say homogender instead of cisgender. The only time you’d use these terms (and similar ones, like AFAB/AMAB) is in specific situations where the nuance distinguishing the two matters.
You don’t have to use the terms either. It’s fully acceptable to just call people men and women, particularly in contexts where their assigned sex doesn’t matter, which I’d wager for most people is pretty much all the time.
It sounds like your reasoning is similar to how a lot of people feel about the word ‘moist’.
I wouldn’t be happy if the descriptor for me was viscerally hurtful to myself.
I think the big difference is the world we live in. Lgbtq+ are being targeted by rightwing fucks all over the world. Talking about how you don’t like the word sounds a lot like ‘Im just asking what a woman is’. It’s not exactly transphobic, but those phrases are often used by people trying to legitimize their hate. For example, take a look at JKRs change in rhetoric.
go ahead, go out into the world, and start referring to any other person as “homogender”, ahahahaha, come back and report how far you got before someone punched you square in the nose
I suppose technically instead of transgender we could use heterogender, meaning we’d say homogender instead of cisgender. The only time you’d use these terms (and similar ones, like AFAB/AMAB) is in specific situations where the nuance distinguishing the two matters.
You don’t have to use the terms either. It’s fully acceptable to just call people men and women, particularly in contexts where their assigned sex doesn’t matter, which I’d wager for most people is pretty much all the time.
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It sounds like your reasoning is similar to how a lot of people feel about the word ‘moist’.
I wouldn’t be happy if the descriptor for me was viscerally hurtful to myself.
I think the big difference is the world we live in. Lgbtq+ are being targeted by rightwing fucks all over the world. Talking about how you don’t like the word sounds a lot like ‘Im just asking what a woman is’. It’s not exactly transphobic, but those phrases are often used by people trying to legitimize their hate. For example, take a look at JKRs change in rhetoric.
go ahead, go out into the world, and start referring to any other person as “homogender”, ahahahaha, come back and report how far you got before someone punched you square in the nose