Myths/Cis is a slur

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Myth: The prefix "cis" is derogatory

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."[1]
  • "Don’t call me a Cis-Woman because you are a man pretending to be one."[2]

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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"

https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/01/being-called-cis-is-not-oppressive/

Links

Footnotes

  1. private communication with Woozle via Twitter
  2. 2019-09-13 shatta_ute@Twitter