ID: Is this a pigeon meme where the person is tagged “cis society”, the butterfly in their hand is tagged “trans people having a backbone about anything at all”, and they are asking “is this destroying my free speech?”
ID: Is this a pigeon meme where the person is tagged “cis society”, the butterfly in their hand is tagged “trans people having a backbone about anything at all”, and they are asking “is this destroying my free speech?”
There are multiple times more total number of stalwart cis allies-of-trans than there are trans total, let’s not be confrontational with blanket terms like that. A better description of the enemy would be “conservatives”.
EDIT: changed words to remove ambiguity of what there was more of
The term cis society is clearly being used to describe how cisnortmative and transphobic society is. Would you assume someone talking about the patriarchy is referring to every single man?
The definition of cis is just a singular person who identifies with the gender assigned at birth, as they have every right to do in the same vein that they have every right to identify as a different gender if they wanted to.
A more transphobic approach would be to ban use of terms such as cis and trans to eliminate distinctions.
The posters intentions might be clear but their use of language is not, and I think that’s important, too.
nOt aLL cIs pEoPlE!!11222
GTFOH
Your identity is used to attack trans people. Ally or no, it is an accurate statement to say “cis society” rather than “conservative”. Even if there are “many times more allies than trans people” (something I doubt) not all of those uncomfortable with trans people are conservative.
I don’t want you to think I am arguing with you or looking down on you, but you expressed specific doubts and I want us to look at data together and remove those doubts.
According to PewResearch the USA has 1.6% of all adults as trans and/or nonbinary LINK HERE
Other polls appear to place them at or near one of the highest rate in the world, particularly among youths, possibly tied with Brazil, but the USA only ranks #9 for trans inclusivity laws in a 2016 study by UCLA (probably fallen several places since then).
Another PewResearch study LINK HERE shows that 64% of the US public strongly favor protecting trans people from discrimination.
So you have 40 cis trans-allies for every trans person in the USA. In countries like Sweden the trans population might be a lower percentage but trans inclusion is higher so you’ll probably have a much higher trans-allies to trans ratio.
So there are many more cis trans-allies than there are trans. You have support and acceptance that I don’t think you should shut yourself off from, although it’s also good to have a safespace or strong community of people you relate more closely to as well.