(IrishTheFrenchie)
Fighting TRAs with their own medicine.

I'm so fed up with being called "cis" by these people that I'm now reporting every single person who does it for "misgendering".

I tell them I'm not "cis" because I don't have a gender and don't believe in gender, and they then try and call me "agender" AND claim I'm still "cis".

Fight them with fire, throw their own words right back at them. It's LitERaL viOLeNcE to be misgendered, so they get reported.

( Lipsy )
"you call me cis, i call you transvestite"

( XX_Power )
I mean i call them crossdressers no matter what they call me. Even the friendliest and most feminine TIM I'd call a man because he is a man. Womanhood is not something we give to less violent and less vile crossdressers.

( Lipsy )
oh absolutely. But... like... in the States at least, "transvestite" is one of those words like "Negro", "oriental", etc. that throws a whole bunch of extra shade because it's been retired (for decades) and replaced by more socially acceptable words. 😂 It's not the epitome of classy, but, i mean, "cis" so whatever.

( Boudicaea )
Transvestite was never a slur. It's an accurate term. I mean yeah some people used to use it in the same breath as qu**r, but they were just generally homophobic. It's still the correct term. I feel that crossdresser is more slur like, but even then it's just an accurate term.

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( Boudicaea )
Oh, I see what you mean. I guess that makes sense, although I would say negro and oriental are both intended pejoratively. There are worse words, but also there are better words that can be used (although I think negro originally was a respectful alternative to much worse terms, so it is a pretty good analogy). I don't know that there's anything more respectful that you can call a trans person without being inaccurate. They aren't the sex they claim to be and no one is truly "trans" in the way they mean it. But you can cross dress or have SRS. shrug

I do see what you mean though. I think trans people find these terms offensive mostly because it means not using their preferred terminology that denies reality.

( XX_Power )
Oh my that's how I know I live in a conservative space, transvestite is maybe not fashionable but it's absolutely not even close to a slur. Probably what my older colleagues would call them. And now also me ;)