Transnegation Roundup/2020/08/04

Transnegation Roundup for Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Cis is a slur

05:54 @wendycockcroft reshares “I don't misgender or fail to use preferred descriptors, etc., in my dealings with trans people. Even so, saying that a woman is an adult human female gets me called a bigot.”

Nope. Nobody says that. I've seen this claim several times, and it's ridiculous.

She may be covertly redefining "female" to mean "cis female", but she needs to say that -- which is why it's so important to have disambiguators like that in conversations like this.

This was a reshare of a tweet from Monday:

21:31 @BlairJ640 “There are people in my mentions calling me all kinds of nasty names and forcing the label ‘cis’ on me, but if I don’t respect and use a transperson’s preferred pronouns, I’m a bigot? Go figure.”

Yes. Because it's not the same thing. "Cis" is a technical term, and "gender critical" advocates persistently refuse to definitively offer any alternatives. They will frequently use misleading terms like biological sex or birth sex (and gender-specific variants), but they have also argued that using these terms -- or any terms -- to distinguish between cis and trans people is problematic, for reasons that make no sense.

(in progress)

https://differently-normal.com/2020/06/10/example-post-3/ - CAIS woman supporting JKR, long essay worth responding to?

• https://twitter.com/ClareCAIS/status/1290755200635080706 - also retweeted by Wendy