And the trans and cis exactly implying just two options.
I don’t understand, are you saying you think there isn’t just two options here? Because either you identify with the gender assigned to you at birth, or you don’t. You’re either transgender, or cisgender.
You keep talking about not having a term for “not redhead”, but I don’t see why you’re focussing on that trait specifically. We don’t have a word for not redheaded because we don’t need one - language dynamically evolves to fill niches when they arise. Another commenter used straight as an example, do you have an issue with that as a term?
I don’t understand, are you saying you think there isn’t just two options here?
Of course! There are queer, there are asexual, Intersexual, two-spirit and so on.
You keep talking about not having a term for “not redhead”, but I don’t see why you’re focussing on that trait specifically. We don’t have a word for not redheaded because we don’t need one
It is precisely because we do not need to be focused on whether a person is trans or sic, splitting people just in two groups is not needed. Especially when trans people who actually transitioned are below 2% of the population. And as we don’t have word for non-readheaded because we do not need one, I am arguing that we do not need the word for non-trans either. There is nothing special about being non-trans that we need a separate word for that.
Another commenter used straight as an example, do you have an issue with that as a term?
For the same reason, straight is on of many categories, the others being LGBTQIA2S+… so yes, we need stright, otherwise you would have to say “not gay, not lesbian, not bi, not trans, not queer … +”. That’s rather mouthful to say.
I don’t understand, are you saying you think there isn’t just two options here? Because either you identify with the gender assigned to you at birth, or you don’t. You’re either transgender, or cisgender.
You keep talking about not having a term for “not redhead”, but I don’t see why you’re focussing on that trait specifically. We don’t have a word for not redheaded because we don’t need one - language dynamically evolves to fill niches when they arise. Another commenter used straight as an example, do you have an issue with that as a term?
Of course! There are queer, there are asexual, Intersexual, two-spirit and so on.
It is precisely because we do not need to be focused on whether a person is trans or sic, splitting people just in two groups is not needed. Especially when trans people who actually transitioned are below 2% of the population. And as we don’t have word for non-readheaded because we do not need one, I am arguing that we do not need the word for non-trans either. There is nothing special about being non-trans that we need a separate word for that.
For the same reason, straight is on of many categories, the others being LGBTQIA2S+… so yes, we need stright, otherwise you would have to say “not gay, not lesbian, not bi, not trans, not queer … +”. That’s rather mouthful to say.