pocketseagull
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- Dec 29, 2014
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I'm offended by the term "cisgender" - it seems to be a slur created to marginalise anyone outside of the transgender community.
I don't mind what people describe themselves as or how they live their lives, but I don't expect others to start making up words to describe me. I don't identify as 'cisgender' and I don't agree that the term is accurate or useful, so of course it is offensive just as it would be offensive to be described as anything else that is inaccurate or unuseful.
If the transgender community wants to describe people outside of the transgender community, there are already words to describe that - for example "men and woman outside of the transgender community". Far less offensive and still recognises men and women outside of the transgender community, rather than lumping them all into a single slur.
Does it help for you to learn that the word was coined by a cisgender man?