• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Just because a word is a scientific definition doesn’t mean it can’t become a slur. It’s happened many times

    Yes, but every time because people used the word pejoratively. Pointing out that someone is cis isn’t an insult or otherwise pejorative and there’s nobody who’s trying to insult people who aren’t by calling them cis either.

    Transphobes are calling it a slur because they don’t like how acknowledging that you can be cis implies acknowledging that others aren’t. It’s just the typical bully playing the victim dance that bigots always do when people question their bigotry in even the most benign ways.

    There’s also illegal aliens

    Nope, that was always a slur designed for othering all immigrants by making the undocumented ones sound inherently criminal and frightening, and then conflating all immigration with that imaginary bogeyman.

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      1 year ago

      This.

      It’s the “white lives matter” of trans conversation.

      Let’s see if the OP of this thread can answer me as I asked what “other phrases” he would suggest to replace “cisgender” which would actually convey the same meaning.