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( Luckystar )
Yeah, and "negro" is Latin for black. Words take on meaning within contexts.

Even if we granted that it's not a slur in the traditional sense, but simply a sociological term for "a person whose gender identity matches their sex", it STILL wouldn't apply to us. We don't have a "gender identity". It's simply factually incorrect and doesn't describe how we interface with reality.

( Mandy )
Some TRA moron on twitter tried to tell me 'cisgender' means 'straight'.

( MenHaveItEasy )
Orly?

Then why do rapey TIMs cry that "cis" lesbians wont date them?

( Luckystar )
The comparison to "straight" is so weak because the comparison between LGB and T never made sense in the first place.

For the most part, almost everyone does have a sexual orientation. Some people feel attraction to the same sex, some to the opposite sex, and some to both. "Straight" is a perfectly fine term that applies to a wide swath of the population.

Most people do NOT have a "gender identity". A small subsection of people have this idea that they were meant to be the opposite sex, or neither. That doesn't mean the rest of the population has some strong feeling that they were meant to be the sex that they are, nor do we desperately look to surgeries, haircuts, clothing etc to "prove" that we are our birth sex.

( DurableBook )

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Most people do NOT have a "gender identity".

I'm atheist, so I don't believe anybody has a gender-soul, because I don't believe any such thing exists. I know there are people who believe they have gender-souls, and that's totally okay with me, but I don't share their belief and don't feel like pretending I do.

Rowling nailed it with her recent tweet: Gender identity is unfalsifiable. It is an untestable belief. It is okay for people to hold untestable beliefs, but it is not okay for them to demand that other people share those untestable beliefs. It is only fair to expect other people to agree with realities that are accessible to all of us.