Elon Musk says terms like “cisgender”and “cis” are now considered “slurs” on Twitter and will not be tolerated.
Thoughts?
EDIT: Elon never said that you can't say the word. He said that repeated harassment would be banned. The only thing he said about the word cis is that it was considered a slur. You can still say many slurs on Twitter (such as the N word)
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you said your mom didn’t want to be classified under the “cis” label and instead wanted trans people to be classified as “trans”. but this wouldn’t work (see my other reply)… Also, there is less debate about trans vs cis men than trans vs cis women, because many voices on the right are concerned with scaring women into thinking their being “replaced”.
Ok, so basically, the group term “female” should include females and trans females. However, if there needs to be a distinction, biological females, being the majority, should be called females and trans females should be trans females. My mum wants to be recognised as a female, same with loads of other females, and not have an extra label on her as she is 50% of the population. Hope you understand
but that doesn’t work… if you say that “females have […]” when it only applies to cis females, it won’t work because the term female can mean trans or cis female. there are many instances where a term like cis is necessary to prevent confusion. Also, trans people also have an extra label. Both cis and trans women have the label when it’s critical to preventing ambiguity and that’s the only way to ensure fairness. 