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I remember when I was smaller that some people got really offended when described as heterosexual. "I'm not hetero, I'm normal" sticks in my brain. Something si
by Timon3 3y ago
I remember when I was smaller that some people got really offended when described as heterosexual. "I'm not hetero, I'm normal" sticks in my brain. Something similar is probably at play here - people trying to reject a descriptor they don't think they identify as, but not because it's not accurate, but because they reject the categorization entirely.
- sp332 3y agoThey want to be the normal, default, nameless group so that they can treat trans people as freaks. Or to put it another way, they think cis is a slur because they use trans a as a slur.
- Timon3 3y agoExactly! They fundamentally don't want to acknowledge trans people's existence as valid, and use every possible tool to keep it that way.