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> "Regular" women The word you're looking for is "cis".
by lovegoblin 5y ago
> "Regular" women
The word you're looking for is "cis".
- teh_infallible 5y agoThe world you’re looking for is “real”
- lovegoblin 5y agoI assure you it is not.
- freemint 5y agoWhat you just said will understood as extremely hurtful and a purposeful attack on trans people by (some) trans people or trans advocates. Did you do that on purpose?
- pumaontheprowl 5y agoIt's the truth. Trans women are not real women as they do not have the same DNA and cannot birth children (amongst many other differences). I may be offended when people talk negatively about my under-performing sports team, but that doesn't give me a right to delete their comments just because I perceive them to be hurtful.
- dang 5y agoTrolling will get you banned here. You've unfortunately been doing this repeatedly lately. Please stop. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- ta122347 5y agoIts this sort of thing that backlash is all about. You cant have an unapproved opinion or refuse to use their terminology or authoritarians will silence you, label it as trolling or hate speech etc. Real is absolutely the simplest and best description. Trans and cis are poisoned terms their use designed to support the legitimacy of the identity. There is only real and fake.
- dang 5y agoThis thread is full of people commenting on both sides of the question so obviously there's no "you can't have an unapproved opinion". What you can't do is toss obvious flamebait, for the same reason you don't get to toss lit matches at a gas station. You can describe that as "you can't have an unapproved smoking device" if you want, but it's misleading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- tabtab 5y agoI corrected it; however, keep in mind many readers don't know that means.
- mkl 5y agoIt's not an acronym, it's a prefix, like "trans" but the opposite.
- worik 5y agoI like the term "natal women/men".
- josteink 5y ago“Real” and most people will know what you’re talking about. The only people using the term “cis” are trans-activists.