“Cis”: the worm turns on Twitter
“Cis” is one of those insidious politically-motivated language changes of which the left is so fond. “Cis man” and “cis woman” supposedly mean what was formerly covered by the terms “man” and “woman.”
Musk has announced a new Twitter policy that is sure to rile the left:
“Yesterday, after posting a Tweet saying that I reject the word ‘cis’ and don’t wish to be called it, I receive [sic] a slew of messages from trans activists calling me ‘cissy’ and telling me that I am ‘cis’ ‘whether or not I like it’,” James Esses, co-founder of Thoughtful Therapists, tweeted.
In his original tweet, Esses declared his rejection of the term. “I formally and publicly declare that I reject the label of ‘cis’. I don’t believe in gender ideology. I don’t self-identify as ‘cis’. Using this term makes me feel unsafe and is demonstrative of your hatred towards me. Anyone who uses the term ‘cis’ to describe me is a bigot.”
It’s an interesting and appropriate tactic, using the left’s identity-group tactics against them. The approach bore immediate fruit, as Musk declared that cis will now be considered a slur on Twitter and might possibly cause suspension, at least temporarily.
By the way, I’m familiar with Esses’ work, from several podcasts I’ve watched. Here is his backstory:
I am a trainee therapist who was expelled from a university course over email for launching a public petition trying to safeguard therapy and counselling for vulnerable children with gender dysphoria.
He is suing. His website can be found here, and this is his Twitter page.
It’s always been a way to marginalize normal people using psuedo-intellectual sophistry. It’s a tried and true tactic of the Left. Get your opposition to accept your lables, your terms and definitions and you’ve effectively already prepared a battleground that is advantageous.
Cis, trans, ortho, meta, para are used in organic chemistry IIRC in nomenclature for different molecules, xylene for instance. The left perverts language it seems. Is there a “para sexual” or “para gendered? TMI to be sure.
What about “ipso, meso, and peri” being misappropriated to describe confused sexuality? You saw it here first?
Getting quite tired of the Cultural Marxists language changes
Always thought “cis” and “trans” were terms of location or geography.
Maybe park ’em all in Transylvania and set up an enclave of sorts?
Great! If I ever get the chance to use “Your triggering me. I feel unsafe” to the idjts on the other side it will be a happy camper.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show came out in 1975. They have been pushing this pram for nearly 50 years?
Well done Elon!
Well played, om. I had forgot about all those organic chem terms.
I too reject any such labels. My sense of my own “gendered” traits is 100% my business alone and no one else has my permission to force me to disclose my “gender” or my sexuality.
We should have been pushing back on these personal disclosures from the beginning, on the basis of privacy if nothing else. Why should anyone have to discuss what is in essence their sex life and/or their deepest personality traits as part of a group interaction at work or school?
Cis and trans are originally Latin. Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul, for example. Austria and Hungary were sometimes called Cisleithania and Transleithania.
“Transgender” and “Cisgender” make transgenderism sound more common than it actually is. That was probably intentional.
I refuse to support the mentally deluded. Unless they respond with violence. In which case, I’ll accommodate them… with extreme prejudice.
I donated to his fund and shared the donation on facebook. It will be interesting to see what happens.
When a leftist (I refuse to call them ‘liberal’) tried to argue that “Cis” as a shortened form of cisgender was not offensive in any respect, I asked him if “homo” instead of homosexual was offensive. No response.
Some information on the origins of this usage of “cis”:
https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/term-cisgender-coined-pedophile-sympathizer-volkmar-sigusch-good-sex-anything
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“Cis” and “trans” mattered for double bonds and in pharmacology. On the “street”, “cis” meant normal. I could not do much to authenticate the trans delusion. Using fancy pseudo-technical language doesn’t hide the defect.