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Ironically this means that discussion of trans people is allowed on Twitter, but there is no easy way to talk about cis people as a category (oops, I mean peopl
by kweingar 3y ago
Ironically this means that discussion of trans people is allowed on Twitter, but there is no easy way to talk about cis people as a category (oops, I mean people who are not trans).
The only alternative I can think of is “non-trans” but then that frames 99% of the population in terms of what they aren’t, which I imagine that these Twitter users would also complain about.
(Preemptively, I know that some on Twitter will object by saying “I don’t need any label like cis, I’m just normal! Can’t you just call me normal?” which is a poorly thought out non-solution as a drop-in replacement for cisgender. I imagine that they will still want a name for “people who are not trans or non-binary”, and I wonder what term, if any, will be concocted to replace cis.)