Comments on: Your words are killing us: cis writing about trans identities

By: Kendoll

Kendoll — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 01:49:02 +0000

OMGoddess Far too many terminologies to remember these days, every one just has to be right, so much criticism & fault to be found, I Guess I’ll just keep it simple stick with ‘human’ and ‘live & let live’

By: Titi Chartay

Titi Chartay — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 00:52:40 +0000

Sorry cat jumped in lap before i had a chance to finish … the point of the historical overview i just wrote was both an analysis of the past but also an indicator of present day attitudes and how little things gave changed.

What i was about to write concerned “stone butches” for those unfamiliar with this term, it means a lesbian who won’t allow herself to xď touched during sexual encounters. I believe that most stone butches were in fact trans and that their denial of intimate contact from their partner was a methodxx

By: LisaM

LisaM — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 06:34:40 +0000

Brilliant article Issac. Nailed every point perfectly. Look forward to reading more of your stuff in the future.

By: Jadzia Benntley

Jadzia Benntley — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 08:32:12 +0000

Nobody is asking you to run around self identifying as cisgender Pam, but labels play an important role in facilitating certain conversations. Would you take offence if you were called a brunette women, or a short woman? The alternative is to call you ‘normal’ which implies that I am abnormal, or to call you a biologic woman which ignores the fact that my gender is part of my biology.

Honestly, if the worst thing you have to deal with is being called cis in certain conversations that are usually discussing the issues we as trans people face, then you’ve gotten off lightly. Im pretty confident you will will never be bashed for being cis, be murdered for being cis, be unable to access rousing for being cis, be denied employment for being cis.

It would be great if the people that like to whinge about a label that has no actual impact on their lives would get off their high horses and actually speak up for the trans community instead of once again making it all about them!

By: Pam Morrison

Pam Morrison — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 02:55:20 +0000

You have some valid points and I understand how the language in your examples can give the wrong impressions of trans people and is not understanding. Talking about language I do not like the term a “cis” woman and didn’t even know what it meant to recently. I do not want this label because I was born with female genitalia.