The Problem With Cisgender People

What they can’t see isn’t “real”

Emma Holiday
Gender From The Trenches

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The problem with cisgender people is simple: the vast majority of them have no clue that they are cisgender. They are absolutely and innocently ignorant about the relationship between their sex and gender. To them there is no difference. They are all one and the same.

Cisgender people are essentially gender “flat earthers.” They don’t know that a difference even exists, therefore it doesn’t exist.

So off we go.

How many citizens in the port of Palos, Spain scoffed at Columbus when he set sail in 1492 thinking that he would fall off the edge of the earth? The funny fact is when Columbus set sail he predicted he’d make landfall in Asia. He actually thought the Earth was a finite plane instead of a round planet.

Cisgender people are uncomfortable with any large, massive challenges to their fundamental belief system. Gender is one of them. In their mind, just like watching a ship disappear over the horizon to a flat earther, having a penis or not having one settles the question of gender in the binary world that they live in.

What they can’t see isn’t real.

And who can blame them in the world of “fake news?” Credibility for the average person has been stretched way beyond reason. The…

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Emma Holiday
Gender From The Trenches

After decades of denial I finally answered the question “What’s wrong with me?” The answer is “Nothing”. I am transgender and I am OK.