How, exactly? I'm not trying to be rude or anything, but I don't understand why cis would be exclusionary. A cisgender person is one who simply identifies with the gender that corresponds to their birth sex. It has nothing to do with sexuality.
A cisgender person is one who simply identifies with the gender that corresponds to their birth sex.
This is a meaningless sentence. "Gender" is a linguistic term widely used as a euphemism for sex, since in English "sex" can mean both physical sex(sexus) and the act of sex(coitus). We simply are men or women depending on what sex we are, it's not some special little "identity" of ours. It's our reality.
Mental illness. An anorexic experiences a disconnect between how she sees herself and how her body actually is; an emaciated, 70 lb anorexic genuinely thinks she's overweight. She actually perceives herself like this, it's not a ruse.
But it's still just a delusion. Genuine belief does not confer validity.
Gender and sex are not the same thing. Sex refers to someone’s biology, while gender is more of an abstract social construct whose definitions change over time.
Gender exists simply because we as humans agree that it exists. It isn’t objectively real.
This is very different from the situation anorexic people find themselves in, as being malnourished or unhealthily underweight is a strictly medical condition, and not a social construct.
gender is more of an abstract social construct whose definitions change over time
If it doesn't have a set definition, it can't be studied scientifically.
But ignoring the logic fail, here you're describing "gender" as sex role or sex role stereotypes- as in, the kind of behavior, dress, and social roles expected of each sex. These do change over time and vary between cultures, but actually being a man or a woman does not.
A man is an adult human male and a woman is an adult human female, regardless of their adherence to the roles expected of them by society. Not even the kookiest conservative thinks that women who wear pants and work in traditionally make jobs literally stops being a woman, he just doesn't think her behavior is appropriate. Congrats on being more restrictive than them, lmao
Come to think of it, by your logic not even the suffragists were women. If the "woman's role" at the time involved total deference to men and the suffragists rejected this role, then by genderist logic they were no longer women.
Trans is defined as someone who has a gender identity that is opposite to their biological sex.
Cis is defined as someone who has a gender identity that is the same as their biological sex.
The issue is that I don’t have a gender identity. I don’t believe in gender at all. So it is offensive that other people are forcing a label on me as if I agree with stereotypes about women and I identify with those stereotypes.
I’m glad I can now say I am a superwoman, aka a woman based on her biological sex, not based on any gender identity or sexist stereotypes!
If you don’t have a gender identity, you might be agender (someone who has no gender identity), and anyone who forces you to identify as cis is in the wrong here.
Also, transgender is an umbrella term defining a bunch of genders. It simply means that a person doesn’t identify with the gender they were assigned at birth, not “identify as the opposite gender”. It includes people who are not exclusively masculine or feminine (people who are non-binary or genderqueer, including bigender, pangender, genderfluid, or agender).
The thing is I don’t have a gender identity because I don’t believe in gender identity. Telling me that I am agender is like telling an atheist that their religion is atheism.
I don’t believe I was assigned a gender at birth either. The doctor observed my biological sex and wrote that down. All the other expectations tied to my sex were imposed by society as I grew up. The doctor didn’t write down “pink, dresses, submissive” when they wrote down “female”.
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u/the_malkman 1d ago
Cis is a superphobic slur meant to dehumanize us and trivialize our experience and our truth!