X now treats the term cisgender as a slur

Ah yes, the historically marginalized vulnerable community, the cisgenders. How can a community even hope to live in peace with only 98.5% of the population?

You believe that cis is a slur because that's how you use the word trans.

These people are so fragile. If you dare remind them that they're cisgender, that they're straight, that they're white, that they're able-bodied, they take it personally because to them, they're just normal.

All of the sudden, they have to think about their place in society and it absolutely terrifies them. They are like rich people when you tell them that they're rich. They will do this whole fucking song and dance to try and tell you about how they are not that rich and how the government taxes them and everything and how they're just like you and so on.

They are not white, they are not cis, they are not straight, they are not able-bodied, no, they are just normal. It's everyone else that is different. It's them who are black, who are gay, who are trans, who are disabled. They're different.

But my guy, you are not. You are as much a part of the society as I am. And you're getting just a small taste of what it's like to be a minority in said society. Someone reminded you of what you are for just a second. Now, imagine being constantly brought back to what you are and not who you are. What that would be like.

People like Elon Musk take offense to being called straight, white, cis or able-bodied because everything else is inferior to them.

On a side note: Someone should remind him of what the Nazis did to disabled people. Because the dude is clearly getting cozy with a lot of them, but I don't think being this level of clinically stupid is going to get him far in the Fourth Reich. Besides, those South African origins... erh, that may get him in trouble. And having a trans daughter? Woof, doesn't sound like "good genes" to me. Elon, you may want to pick better friends.

Funny, I think the same about X.

X.Org should be pissed.

Look at all this free speech absolutism

Will bipedal be listed as a slur too? What about multicellular? Or mammal?

Don't the fans of X applaud it for being anti-censorship? I would think this goes against their free speech inclinations.

This is what happens when a Nazi affiliated "free-speech" absolutist buys a major media. The trap of the tolerating the intolerant is very real.

Ok so what is their preferred term?

He really hates his trans daughter!

Has anyone ever been fired from a job for being cis? [I’ve been fired from a couple for being trans….]

Something something snowflakes..

I wasn't aware of this term, but I just checked it in wiktionary. Looks like a perfect normal word to me.

I call myself cis male. What delicate fucking snowflakes.

EDIT: I want to provide some more information. I am a straight cis male. Straight is my sexual preference, cis gendered in my gender identity, and male is my biological sex as assigned at birth. I was first called cis male by a lesbian friend in a relationship with a trans-masculine lesbian (I think...s/he was a life long butch lesbian who began to transition socially after we met.) My friend described to me what cis meant and I said, "Ya, that describes me." I have a pair of trans women friends (one post-op and one who will never get the surgery.) I have a pair of gay friends, one who had always known that he was gay and one who was closeted his whole life, married, kids, and came out in his 50s. I had known him for 25 years and never thought about whether he was straight or gay. In my social circle, intellectual and liberal, it is handy to be able to let people know a bit about me in a few words. I've embraced "cis" because I don't think that I am superior because I am what I am. The people who are offended by being called "cis" are the ones who have sneered labels at others. I haven't done that. I also find it handy in social situations to be able to say I'm interested in straight or bi cis women.

I could not care less who you love, who you want to have sex with, how you present yourself, how you want to be addressed, etc. I have my preference but that's just me.

So Musk will let you use that word all you want because free speech, right?

...right?

Everyone should start talking about CSI incessantly.

So it's a gay-only platform now?

Tired of hearing about Xhitter... Stop posting every excruciating minutiae about it and let it die already

the best part about this is that elon basically is doing the john mulaney sketch where he says cis all the time to justify it but when asked why the n word is allowed, he refers to it without saying it.

I honestly never even considered that it was a slur. Sometimes you are having a discussion where gender identity is relevant, and in that situation it is useful to be able to clearly indicate that someone is cisgender.

See I just used it.

They don't want freedom of speech; they want licentiousness of speech.

Lol, that's incredible. But more incredible is what happened in Peru: They declared that being trans is a mental disease.

sob there are new terms that describe human beings because gender is not a binary, woe is me, I'm so upset... /s

Classic South African move js

Utterly moronic. What on earth ?

Isn't it about time to add cis to the LGBTQ+ community?

That way we can make them get angry with themselves for being part of the group, or make them accept the rest since they now belong to them.

Because Melon thinks transgender is a slur.

I thought he was a "free speech absolutist"

That's antisemitic, too.

I am cisgender and aroace. I treat trans people just as equally as everyone else.

So why does Twitter (I'm not calling me X anymore) hate me now? Do I have to identify as anything other than male to be liked by a toxic community? (I am AMAB) Is this some form of counter-discrimination?

Obviously trans people deserve rights, but that doesn't mean cis people should have their rights taken away from them.

I do not understand why people still use Twitter...

All speech is free, but some speech is more free than others

I actually kinda wish I could see the idiotic replies that the mods are removing

I've heard that straggot isn't, so take that information as you will /s

Y'all wanna do a poll for context? Hope that's allowed, since pretty sure updoots means nothing on Lemmy. Apologies if not, anyway here I go:

Is trans a slur? Updoot the corresponding comment to cast your vote, or downdoot to be a troll I guess idk

Wow that's unbelievable. As in I literally don't believe it. So I tested it by posting various sentences containing these words and other known slurs to compare, and found it didn't work.

Maybe this is some American thing I'm not Free enough to experience in my corner of the world, or it doesn't do this on android or the browser site. (The tech crunch screenshot looks like something else, probably iOS)

It hard to say because no one is even a little bit curious enough to test it. Idk how this thread contains anything else but people testing it, because it's so damn unbelievable. Why is no one testing this themselves? Why are you not testing it yourself?

cool, surely they now treat the term trans as a slur too right?

Right?

Right??

This isn’t even new, the Boer cried about it already like months ago

So come up with a new word? All the screaming in the world won't get musky to change something like this. He's chosen his side.

Why would he hate the word "onthesameside-gender"?

Typical Cishet behavior

The way the users of that slur is used.. yeah it does come off as a slur. As if, "cis-gender" (lol) is a degrading label. You can call me a cis-gender.. you might get a laugh out of me but that's about it.

I've been CALLED it as a slur. \shrug

It's considered a slur when you call a person that who doesn't associate with the term. It's no different from going around calling straight people gay. Do we or do we not respect people's right to choose what they indentify as? It's not like you get automatically banned for using the term. Context matters.

This article also seems to conveniently ignore the fact that all the actual slurs are considered slurs on Twitter aswell. It's also an obviously and openly biased opinion article intented to provoke rage rather than objectional journalism.

Good!

Does it also treat tranny as a slur if so then I guess that's just equality.