> cishet Isn't a new word. It's just the sort of most prolific, "default" position of human so we don't really use it because it isn't relevant. Heterosexual

> cishet Isn't a new word. It's just the sort of most prolific, "default" position of human so we don't really use it because it isn't relevant. Heterosexual is a word, cisgender is a word, and both are 100% accurate descriptions of MOST people. Since MOST people are both of those things, we have cishet. "Why does this exist?" you may ask. Because sometimes we need to refer to the minority - as in, people who ARE NOT both cisgender and heterosexual. Or sometimes we need to refer to people who don't face societal challenges around their gender/sexuality - those people are cishet. I think the fact you think gays don't have the authority to "create" words is weird. Um, why not? Why don't you want to use them? Will something... bad happen to you or is it more so an out of spite thing? Also neither cisgender or heterosexual were created by the gays. Both created by cishet people. People just put them together, boom, cishet, easy. Not a new thing or cause for concern IMO.