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CIS.
dont call me cis. i’m not your little word for me. i am simply not a trans person. thats it, i’m not trans. i’m not anything else beyond not being trans. i’m not cis.
i admit that i was very in the dark about this community, but not out of hate or ignorance, or unwillingness to participate, just from never knowing anyone with this types of issues before, never seing how it affects people. its not like homosexuality issues that i see more, and know how to react to more.
But when Laura Grace so boldly told the world of her troubling past and her future decisions, i instantaneously became part of this community overnight because of her importance in my life.
so i started to educate myself about it, reading her story in rolling stone, doing some online research, finding other trans music artist, that type of thing. and something that came up between bickering am! fan over pronouns the phrase “die cis scum” came up one or two….or fifteen dozen times.
so i looked up the word, and then its history. i know who created it and what it was created for. and you know what? i dont like it. and that just the way i feel. i’ve seen it used positively a few times, (note that i havent been a part of that for that long) but mostly it just feel like something segregating. like the ‘n’ word. and i’m sorry, i cant change the way i feel about that. it just doesnt seem like a useful term to shed light, rather keep non trans people at bay.
so there, i just really had to say that. now cast your stones, i know its coming.
1) The word cis applies to you; cis means nothing other than “identifying with the gender you were assigned at birth. It is a value neutral term. The only reason it has negative connotations is:
2) that all cis people either are violent towards trans people or benefit from violence towards trans people
3) and most cis people are unrepentant in so doing. You and other cis people give that word negative connotation through your behavior. OWN YOUR SHIT.
4) You think cis is a term to “keep people at bay.” Firstly, it isn’t—it’s value neutral. Secondly, to keep you at bay? We need to keep you at bay. We need to keep you at bay because you keep trying to kill us.
5) You did not become a part of our community, instantly or otherwise. Becoming part of a community involves accountability, work, and consent from other members of the community. Why don’t you believe we have agency?
6) “i’m not anything else beyond not being trans.”
No, there doesn’t seem to be anything else to you, does there?
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