KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime said:
So due to people constantly insisting on derailing my thread, designed to help broaden the understanding of transgender people, with a debate on this term I decided to start this one.
I have only one rule for this thread: Keep it civil and polite! So don't throw insults and false accusations around. That said debating the term is perfectly fine, so long as you follow the site rules.
My Opinion: I'm honestly not quite sure what what to think of the term now. I'm just kind of tired of it being debated back and forth to the point it's lost almost all meaning in my mind. I guess replacing it might be inorder.
So what do you all think? Discuss!
It's a political construct and I tend to look down on people who use the term and even mock it's use at times. I don't consider it worthy of serious debate. It's pretty much another attempt by politically grandstanding minorities to come up with a "slur" they can apply to the majority of people to "label" them in a dehumanizing fashion in the way they believe they have been labeled. "Cisgender" is to a gay person what a black person calling a white person a "cracker" is, perhaps the people doing it will say otherwise, but that's functionally the case. Really the only experience I've had with it is occasionally getting griped at for refusing to take the label seriously. Debating it winds up giving it too much credit, and sort of shows how ridiculous it is.
Basically gays, lesbians, trans genders of various stripes, and everything else that isn't a straight person can be identified by that name and labeled, where as a "straight" person doesn't have much of a label except maybe "straight" and simply comes as a default assumption along with personhood. The idea is that they want to label everyone and making it so that a normal person is going to be labeled as "Cis" rather than simply as a basic person out of hand, and get away from only minorities having specifications. "Cis" of course also generally having negative connotations and being used as an offensive label when dealing with a lot of the LGBT crowd and their supporters.