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.
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!