A thread about the word cis: short for cisgender. 1/
I ran a poll and over 5700 people said they find to be offensive. That should be enough for anyone not to use the term. If you want to know why, read the responses.
2/ The reason I find it offensive is that it suggests I identify with gender stereotypes. People are not walking talking GI Joe dolls or Barbies. I fought gender stereotypes my whole life. I wonβt wear one as a label.
There are many other reasons.
3/. Once someone has told you that they find a term offensive, to continue to use the term is to turn it into a slur: a bigoted and intolerant position refusing to accept that others differ from your ideology. #CisIsASlur
4/ The genderists however have a vested interest in calling you Cisgender. It is important to their ideology. It is important to their hierarchy of oppression. Calling you cis is to call you an oppressor.
5/ I repeat. When they call you cis they are calling you an oppressor. Ironically, this puts them in a position of power over you. Now they can take your stuff because you are a bad person.
6/ They object vociferously to letting you out of this oppressor role they have built for you with this slur.
7/ The same replies are repeated over and over. I only screenshot a couple.
8/ For daring to object to their gender ideology they start to apply the typical pressure. They call you transphobic. Which makes no sense since all you did was ask them not to call YOU something.
Read the word as heretic and it makes more sense.
9/. You are a heretic if you object to the ideology. You must be punished. You must be brought back in line. You are a bad person if you wonβt accept what you are. They have told what you are. You better accept it.
10/. The pressure mounts. If you hold your ground they bring out the big insults. Call you a Terf: Trans exclusionary radical feminist.
This manipulation often works because no one wants to be seen as exclusionary.
11. The insults get stronger and stronger the more you resist.
Do you see how emphatically they require you to be a part of this ideology? Simply resisting the word cisgender brings the rage.
12. Notice too if the insults donβt work they will imply you are reducing women to biology.
But defining what a woman is (a finite noun, specifically an adult human female) is not the same as saying who a woman is (which is infinite).
13. This has been a long thread. Forgive me. I wanted to make it clear just how insistent this new ideology is about you adhering to it. This kind of enormous social pressure works. Watch out for it. See the word cis for what it is: Indoctrination into an ideology.
14. As they teach in Taoism βThe Tao that can be named is not the true Taoβ.
When you label your identity you limit yourself. You place yourself in a box.
Who you are is an infinite expression wayyy too beautiful and complex for any kind label.
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Sad to add this to a thread that just ended on an upbeat note, but you must understand that the vitriol is ramping up. Please be aware.
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A very activist Montana judge has temporarily blocked a bill (HB 121) that was signed into law protecting womenβs privacy in bathrooms.
The reasoning is spectacular. Just wait for this:
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The judge found there is no evidence that it protects womenβs privacy to keep men out of womenβs bathrooms!
Umβ¦.excuse me. What does this judge think women want privacy from? 2/
This is a bit technical legally but the court finds that TG status is a suspect class which gets special protection. Why? Bc equal treatment on the basis of s*x is a fundamental right.
But genderism isnβt ON the basis of s*x at all!!!!! Talk about mixing up concepts. 3/
Her name is Stephanie Turner and she faced expulsion from the tournament for refusing to fence a man who pretends he is a woman.
He knows he has the power behind him. She knows it. She took a stance anyway. This is what was said here.
Sheβs amazing. 1/
Stephanie was taken to the bout committee where she was lectured and given a black card and thrown out of the competition bc she refused to participate in her own destruction. 2/
She said later βIt will probably, at least for a moment, destroy my life. I don't think that it's going to be easy for me from now on going to fencing tournaments. I don't think it's going to be easy for me at practice," Turner said. "It's very hard for me to do this." Β 3/
I listened to a hearing today where a bill was brought in California to protect womenβs sports. (Even though that is the law now, they donβt seem to care. I think they are hoping for a severe penalty for political reasons.)
Let me tell you their arguments:
First off there were LOTs of comments about βt*ans kidsβ. Except this was code for boys. There are girls who have these identities but they lose too if the sports are made co-ed. Not one person mentioned that. This whole ideology always hurts the girls. Even their own girls.
Then there was the pretense that this isnβt happening. While simultaneously they argued that not letting boys in girls sports would be the biggest calamity on the planet. 3/
THREAD. Let me explain whatβs happening to womenβs sports with an analogy. We are lost in the weeds over inanities when itβs a simple question of eligibility. No one fits in every category but there IS a category for everyone.
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We have 235 pound men declaring how unfair it is that they are banned from the lightweight boxing category. We have people who know nothing about boxing declaring this is unfair!
They will discuss how the 235 pounder identifies as 112 pounds. 2/
We have people who really want to win medals who canβt do it in their weight class, so they are demanding access to other categories they might be able to win.
We talk at length about how some 235 pounders canβt beat a 112 pound man. As if that matters.
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Her name is Chase Strangio. She is a woman who works for the ACLU. You can tell when you hear her.
She has stated there are no men in womenβs sports. First off, this is ridiculous. How can she say this?
Thread. 1/
She says this bc she has simply redefined the word men. It no longer means adult human male to her. To her it is some nebulous thought, so if the person has a different thought, they cease to be a man.
Chase is a lawyer. 2/
Think about how easily they took over the law. They donβt have to change a single word of a law. They simply redefined the words. Imagine a contract where you paid for a Maserati and the guy gave you a Kia and said βthatβs a Maseratiβ and he was serious and the judge agreed. 3/
In exactly one week, the man on the left, Jason Tickle who changed his name to Roxy, will be going after @salltweets Sall Grover in a battle over legal costs from his lawsuit against her. She is a single mom and he is trying to financially destroy her bc she knows heβs a man. 1/
Not only did he sue her bc he says he is a woman, and was thus entitled to join her woman only app, but the court in Australia ruled he is a woman.
He harassed her with phone calls, sued her when she was pregnant, and now he wants to take food out of her daughterβs mouth. 2/
Can you imagine how terrified Sall is right now? This man has been given the legal privilege to enter ANY womanβs space he wants. Anywhere. He plays hockey on a womenβs team with young teens even! He is entitled to enter their bathrooms and showers. 3/