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[gfish]

People have problems with the term cisgender? That's... I don't know what that is. Quite an impressive knapsack, I guess.

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[cow.livejournal.com]

And yet, sadly common whenever trans/genderqueer stuff gets discussed on the internet. :(

It seems that people feel that defining the .. standard option? .. makes them boxed in. Which is understandable, but just as 'homo' needs 'hetero', 'trans' needs 'cis' just to construct the sentences. Not that you don't already know, but I get ranty.

or something. blurg tired brain.

[arjache.livejournal.com]

It sure would be nice if, in the process of feeling boxed in, they took the time to consider how awful it must be for gender-variant people to feel boxed in by language too.

Something tells me that didn't happen, though.

[cow.livejournal.com]

Seriously. It's definitely something where I tend to reach for the Tiny Violins™ when I see people getting offended by the term.