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marjaerwin"cis, prep., with acc. on this side of, within." - Cassells
I don't usually use the word. While it's the common Latin antonym of trans, it's also been associated with the idea that all people are either cis or trans, which is reasonable, and to the idea that cis people don't experience sex and gender-related struggles, which only trans people do, which isn't true. Actually, if we listen to what they say, and read what they write, many people who aren't trans face very real struggles. Not all the same struggles, and not to the same degree as our struggles, but maybe enough to back off the word and back off those definitions which package-in misleading assumptions about people's experiences.
But it's not an insult.
It's not trans people naming other people - it's simply using the other half of the name other people put on us.
It's not some conspiracy to "cut and kill women/females/lesbians."
Some of us are "women/females/lesbians."
*headdesk*
I don't usually use the word. While it's the common Latin antonym of trans, it's also been associated with the idea that all people are either cis or trans, which is reasonable, and to the idea that cis people don't experience sex and gender-related struggles, which only trans people do, which isn't true. Actually, if we listen to what they say, and read what they write, many people who aren't trans face very real struggles. Not all the same struggles, and not to the same degree as our struggles, but maybe enough to back off the word and back off those definitions which package-in misleading assumptions about people's experiences.
But it's not an insult.
It's not trans people naming other people - it's simply using the other half of the name other people put on us.
It's not some conspiracy to "cut and kill women/females/lesbians."
Some of us are "women/females/lesbians."
*headdesk*
