Complaining about the use of 'cis' is Elon Musk's latest dumb crusade, but its roots go back a decade
announced that targeted harassment on the site would lead to account suspensions — which had been company policy well before he bought the social platform at a grossly inflated price. His declaration was in response to a user indignant that others had called him “cis,” short for “cisgender,” meaning his gender identity conforms to the sex he was assigned at birth. It’s a term that describes someone who is, simply, not transgender.
Musk agreed, however, that this clinical label is offensive, and went so far as to call it a “slur” of the kind that could get your account suspended. Repeated, targeted harassment against any account will cause the harassing accounts to receive, at minimum, temporary suspensions.Like many of the capricious and trollish decisions Musk makes about Twitter, this caused an online uproar, even while it remained unclear how serious he was or whether the site’s gutted moderation team would be able to enforce the arbitrary rule.
Dana Defosse, the retired researcher and physician educator who coined the term in 1994, even wrote anthat it was a clear example of his ongoing transphobia. “The fact is, whether or not somebody identifies as cisgender doesn’t negate the fact that cisgender identity is a valid construct,” she said. “It exists, and it has meaning in how we operate in the world.”
Nevertheless, Musk breathed life into a conservative talking point, one that attempts to erase the existence of trans people by claiming there is no need for a descriptor for non-trans individuals. The objection to “cisgender” is based in the belief that “cis” is the “normal” or “default” mode of humanity, while anyone identifying as transgender is an aberration.
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