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I’m GLAD Cis Offends You

Now you know how I feel.

ElizaBeth
2 min readJan 8, 2024
Photo by Camila Quintero Franco on Unsplash

The word “cis” is a heterosexual slur. Shame on anyone who uses it.

Elon ranted on the word some time ago.

You never stop hearing people whining about this. If it isn’t TERFs trying to act like they’re the victim, its trans people apologizing for some imaginary oppression.

Me? I hope you are mad.

How many slurs are there for me?

Tr***y, she**le, he*he and a few others. But then of course TERFs didn’t like those slurs so they needed new ones like TiM or Troon.

The fucked up part is that cis isn’t even intended as a slur. Cis is just the opposite of being trans. You identify as the gender you were assigned at birth. Most people don’t even encounter the word. It only gets brought up by trans people really.

But even if it IS a slur, maybe you earned yourself one at this point.

I mean, you’re dumb enough to let me know that word has power over you so why shouldn’t I use it?

Still more, its a VERY good test of who is and isn’t an ally. I don’t think I can phrase it any better than Ari Drennen

They think “cis” is a slur because they use “trans” as…

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ElizaBeth
ElizaBeth

Written by ElizaBeth

Just another closeted, pre-everything transgirl.

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