Myths/Cis is a slur

Myth: 'Cis[gender]' is a derogatory term.

Myth

Examples

• "I'm sick of being called a transphobe for refusing to accept the word Cis or to share intimate spaces with male-bodied people."
• "Don’t call me a Cis-Woman because you are a man pretending to be one."

Web searches:

• "don't call me cis"
• "I am not cisgender"

While the majority of these claims are naked assertions without any argument behind them, the subset of womanhood argument comes up from time to time.

Reality

"Cis-" is a Latin suffix meaning, basically, "the space on the same side of". It is the opposite of "trans", which means "the space beyond" or "on the other side of". In this context, it is short for cisgender, which simply means someone whose gender identity matches their apparent sex – their sex and gender are "on the same side".

Links

reference

• Issuepedia: cis-, cisgender

further reading

• 2015-01-15 6 Reasons Why Being Called a Cis Person Is Not 'Oppressive'