Do you get offended being called a cis man or cis woman?

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it annoys me, I'm a man not a cis man, it's one thing to want to be called something but I don't appreciate anyone giving me a term because I didn't ask for it nor do I want it, if someone is going to address me by my gender, you call me a man, not only is it the term I claim to be, it's also the proper term for my gender, I'm sure no one wants to be called the wrong term so I don't understand why cis is put before the gender, apparently now there's men and women and trans men and trans women, could we cut off all the cis crap?

Exterminatore · Accepted Answer

Not offended but annoyed.

Left wing people have decided to alter the meanings of several words to include gender to fit their narrative and agenda.

Gender has always meant sex. Left wingers have changed Gender to mean the amount of masculinity or femininity a person displays (which is personality and nothing more) and followed with the assertion there are multiple genders.

There are 2 and only 2 genders and terms like cisgender are made up nonsense to support a view that is wrong. That is why they annoy me. I’m tired of left wingers just changing the long standing definitions of words and making up new words to fit their agendas and I refuse to participate.

Other examples are:

Trans woman - ohhhhhh you mean a man. A man without a penis. A man without a penis is still a man, not some new category called “trans woman.”

Tolerance - used for those against the LGBTQ community. People against them are labeled intolerant. Do the gays not have tolerance? I don’t see anyone burning them at the stake or not allowing them to exercise their civil rights. That is tolerance. They have tolerance. We all tolerate them. What left wingers mean by tolerance is approval of and acceptance of.

Homophobia - is anyone really afraid of gays? That’s what homophobia would mean, fear of homos. No, what some do is not approve of that lifestyle, not fear them.

Nativist - which means people think rights should be reserved for native citizens only. Not immigrants. No one is saying that. What people are saying is ILLEGAL immigrants should not be here and not have the right to what LEGAL citizens do. No one gives a rats ass about legal immigrants nor thinks they should not have the same rights as citizens, it’s the ILLEGAL immigrants people are opposed to.

Immigration - left wingers use that word and drop the word ILLEGAL. As in “what’s your stance on immigration?” Ohhhh you mean ILLEGAL immigration. See if we drop the word ILLEGAL, and just use the word immigration it takes away all negative context. It white washes it. Makes it sound as if these people have come legally. As if it’s a benign issue. As if no breaking of the law has taken place.

Racist - means a person thinks one or more races are superior or inferior to others. If someone is against Islam and by extension it’s followers does that mean they’re a racist? No, Islam is a religion not a race. Would you call someone against Catholicism or Catholics a racist? What if someone said they don’t like Mexicans. Are they a racist? No. Mexico is a country, Hispanic is a race. One can dislike people from a particular country and not dislike a particular race. Disagreeing with someone also doesn’t make them a racist.

Sex worker - ohhhh you mean harlot, whore, prostitute or trollope. Sex worker whitewashes the fact these people sell access to their bodies or provide sexual services for money. To include porn stars, and sometimes strippers. Makes it sound like just another job.

Far right wing - anyone who is not Woke or is against it is far right wing. Do you have a shirt with an American flag on it? You’re far right wing. Do you disagree with the Biden administration? You’re far right wing. This is pure bull. Far right wing are KKK types, Nazi types, some types of Fascists and other schools of thought in a similar vein. Loving your country is not far right wing. This is done to make conservatives appear to be extreme and dangerous when in fact the majority of them are not.

False information - ohhh you mean dissenting points of view which don’t fit the approved narrative or statements that expose corruption, stupid ideology, degeneracy or outright lies. We don’t want people knowing the truth and formulating their own opinions so we must engage in propaganda and censorship. Zuckerberg openly admitted on the Joe Rogan Show the FBI was pressuring FB to censor conservative posts during the 2020 presidential election claiming they were “Russian disinformation.” He said FB would put their labels of disinformation on those posts with an explanation why they were wrong and reduce the amount of circulation of such posts, but not delete them all together, even though pressured to, however Twitter did remove such posts at that time all together. That was why all that “fact checking” nonsense was going on. The FBI was urging social media to propagandize Americans to influence the 2020 presidential election.

Social concept - Menstruation and pregnancy are now “social concepts” and men can now get pregnant and menstruate. No they can’t and that is fact. Now we use the term “social construct” to refute objective and long standing science due to an agenda.

“The science has changed” - Really? That’s fascinating. The last step of the scientific method is that results must be repeatable. A hypothesis is formed, experiments are conducted, and then the results must be repeatable. This verifies the truth of the hypothesis. No repeatable results = an incorrect hypothesis. An incorrect hypothesis was never science to start with. It was just that a theory or hypothesis. Theories change. Hypotheses change. Science does not change. What the “science has changed” means is “we didn’t use the scientific method and told you a bunch of crap that was not factual or proven to be true, but lead you to believe it was fact because we called it “science.” Same with the THEORY of evolution. It’s taught as fact, yet there is no missing link. No repeatable results in the fossil record to verify Darwinian evolution as fact. It’s still a theory….. but we teach it in schools and colleges as absolute fact, despite there being plenty of actual science to refute much of that theory.

There’s a lot more of this but I’ll stop here.

Lliam · Accepted Answer

The term was invented by those who are pushing radical trans-genderism. It's a heterophobic pejorative designed to put heterosexuality in a classification along with all the made up alphabet gender "identities".

As far as I'm concerned there are only two genders - male and female. Gays and lesbians are male and female. Even sufferers of gender dysphoria are male or female. "Trans"men are women and "trans" women are men. They can't change that through drugs and surgery.

So yeah, I'm offended by the "cis" prefix. People who use it are a write off. They have fallen for the brainwashing and become cult members. I want nothing to do with such people.

"Postmodernism, led by the French philosophers Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, declared that it is impossible to determine objective truth. The only “truth” is the relative perspective of each individual person. Since its introduction in the 1960s, postmodernism has metastasized throughout the social sciences, art, and culture and now is the predominant ideology of the left.

"Postmodernism makes things disappear on a society-wide scale. If there is no objective truth that can be known, voilà, no structural problems to be solved other than our own psyches that can be treated with drugs or psychotherapy. This strange ideology is incredibly valuable to capital. The ruling class wants to do horrible things to our bodies. And postmodernism has become a Magic Eraser of these crimes.

"So the autism epidemic becomes, through the magic transmogrification of postmodernism, the Neurodiversity Movement!™️ It’s no longer the largest chemical poisoning event in history, it’s simply A Different (Maybe Better?) Way of Being!™️ This is not a problem to be solved, this is a civil rights movement to be celebrated!™️

"Capital also figured out that they can make $1.3 million per person they “transition” to a “different gender” via chemicals and surgery. Increasingly the business plan targets queer, autistic, and mentally ill kids, many of whom may not be able to give informed consent. This is troubling to people with common sense. Enter postmodernism that re-brands this violent assault on the body as “gender-affirming care”. It’s striking that every word in that phrase is incorrect — they are referring to sex not gender, there is nothing affirming about telling people they are born in the wrong body, and chemical poisons and radical surgeries that often cause pain and complications for a lifetime are the opposite of “care”. But since there can be no objective truth, all that matters is the perspective of those with sex dysphoria (regardless of the fact that those views may change later, but cannot actually be reversed). Under the guiding hand of postmodernism, the wide-scale poisoning, mutilation, and castration of sexual minorities becomes something to be celebrated, the highest form of civilization (while any regret is hidden from view).

"Under postmodernism, any form of toxic injury is made to disappear, never to be investigated, and the injured are celebrated but not actually supported in the weirdest display of internal mental colonization in history."

Capital has used schools, corporate media, psychology and medical institutions to con those who are vulnerable to mind control.

Smashingdoozy · Accepted Answer

No, it's stupid to be offended by something that has been a term for forever...

If you identify as the gender that correlates to the sex you were assigned at birth you are cisgender. It's not a bad word. Cis is just Latin for "on this side of" whereas Trans is Latin for "on the other side of".

It's important terminology when talking about groups of people. If I'm writing a paper specifically about men who were assigned so at birth then I need a way to say that and readdress that over and over. So I will use cis-men. If I was writing a paper about transgender men then I would use the term Trans-men. You can see how it would also help when talking about both and differences/similarities.

Spongebobssocks · Accepted Answer

I dont get offended but it's stupid.. I am a biological woman/real woman so🤷🏼‍♀️. That won't change. Although being called a cis man might not sound good so I get it. It sounds like "sis" lol.

These people aren't stable so I'd just go along with it for my own safety but I agree the whole cis thing is dumb.

ImHere22 · Answer

A lot of angry people on this thread mad that they're literally being described as biological men/women vs. non-binary vs. transitioning vs. etc...

"I didn't know what it was, so I looked it up. It's another thing to tune out" Y'all are hilarious! The label Cis-(insert gender) means you identify as the gender you were born as. So if you're a biological male and you identify as a male, adding three letters and a dash does not take away your 'maleness'. If anything, it's signifying for everyone else that that is what you choose to identify as.

I don't understand how you're angry at people trying to be more inclusive... Think of it this way: you have a name, correct? Possibly even a name that friends or family call you? So the 'cis' is like your nickname. If your name is Robert but you go by Bob, wouldn't you get upset if everyone ignored that and continued calling you Robert, even though you've made it clear you prefer Bob?

I swear, some people just like being mad.

comekitty · Answer

I didn't even know what this was 🤣

I had to Google it

Another one for my growing list of things I tune out 🙃

It's funny tho, the group who demands their pronouns and pet names are respected has no respect for what others prefer.

Starlove4 · Answer

I’m not a cis woman I’m a WOMAN! That’s some shit trans people made up to feel better about themselves. I respect the trans lifestyle since it’s none of my business to say how a person should live or who they should have sex with. But pls trans community leave us natural born women alone ! We are born with vaginas and clits. You have no right to rename us. We ARE WOMEN! WTF IS A CIS WOMAN? They literally wanna argue over who periods belong to 😭. dude wtf kind of insecure shit do trans people have going on in their minds? They wanna feel so validated as women so they attack us natural born women. Periods hurt like hell so I don't know why they would want that? It’s insane. Having a period is not a flex and if u want one so bad then something is seriously wrong with u because IT IS NOT FUN.

GOLDFISH_smile · Answer

I wouldn't get offended no, unless it was something intentional or something with hate behind it. Like if someone assumes I'm cis and calls me cis, okay whatever. I'm not gonna correct them unless it's important or I know them somewhat. If they're trying to be offensive tho then I may get upset.

My husband had that happen b4. At work he had another guy get annoyed at him for having his pronouns in his email. Asked if he called himself a cis man too, then proceeded to call him cis whenever he saw him for a few days, seemingly to try and piss him off. It's weird what upsets some people, & what some people do to try and upset u..

Meropatrick · Answer

Of course its crazy not only annoying. We live in a time where u can't be just a man or a woman. U can be they, them, binary non binary. All made up stuff. Its like a new religion and Tyranny. Tyranny have many faces and in the west this one form of tyranny. U r not allowed to acknowelge reality. U need to participate in a sick game of deluded people who r confused about their gender identity and want everyone else to suffer bcs of their confusion. And play their crazy games. The west talks about democracy but its far from it. They want us to believe in 1000 genders like the ancient believed in many gods. To deny the truth. To deny biology. Every Thing north korea does the west does it. And insist they r the good guys.

Beautyblossom2 · Answer

I would definitely be pissed. Like do whatever you want but don't just go assuming I'm gonna play by all these unnecessary extra stuff you created, just cuz I'm your age (it's literally so normalised in our age grps n is assumed to sooo important/a necessary introductory info, if u wanna be a part of smth..) I personally hate pronouns. Like rights n all are fine, but pronouns is just... Unnecessary fanaticism. Maybe one day they'll create an issue on 2 washroom signs for men n women. Maybe someday they'll even start questioning gender reveal parties. N probably blue for boys n pink for girls, is going to turn smth offensive. Maybe someday they'll even demand kids to be raised with "it" or "they" so that they can cHoOse their gender, when they come at that age.. Like whut

Anonymous · Answer

No I don't get offended. It's a term that I sometimes need in conversation with my friends or my girlfriend. Most of them are LGBTQ and I don't always want to address the group of men and women as a whole. I view my trans girlfriend as a woman because she has had all the surgeries but she still doesn't always have the same life experience I do as a cis woman. So I add cis to not feel her left out while talking about a experience of mine, like she uses trans to refer to her community.
But I of course don't use it if someone in the group doesn't feel comfortable with the term. I only use it in private conversation. I'm pretty sure a lot of people mis gender trans people behind their backs as well.

Alli39 · Answer

I mean I'm chill with it. I don't care too much about gender identity, so if someone else uses a term that I might not but is still accurate by definition, then what do I care? It's not like "cis" is really an insult or anything. It also does have relevant meaning at times, so if it's the most accurate word, then it's the most accurate word.

Soteris · Answer

Cis is a useful word for specifying your identity. If you dont like how it sounds or whatever then sucks to be you quite frankly. Its not like someone chooses to be "Gay" because they like the sound that the word makes more than the word "straight". Quite frankly, grow up and stop bitching.

gorydetails · Answer

I’m out offended because I don’t give those degenerates any of my emotional power. It’s a stupid attempt to classify being normal with some weird term and a pejorative by some of them. But these are mentally ill people using this term. Why would i care about them.

Rei13 · Answer

If someone called me that I would honestly give them a weird look and wouldn’t go out of my way to associate with them. Trans is used just to specify someone as other, you’re choosing to express yourself different to what you biologically are in that particular case. I do use it to specify people when I describe them, but otherwise it doesn’t really matter what someone wants to be and I use whatever pronouns they want to go by out of respect to them the same way someone shouldn’t force labels/terminology onto others.

Siri137 · Answer

People who use terms like 'cis' deserve a smack across the face! Isn't it funny how many who 'identify' as whatever the hell they think they are at any given moment in time, will become (or pretend to become) offended if you don't use THEIR preferred terms, but will without hesitation call normal people whatever crap they think is appropriate?

Hypocrisy at its finest!

_SillyShoes_ · Answer

I feel like that is oftentimes being used as a covert insult.

How are we to be blamed for being born a woman or a man?

If we have no control over it, it makes no sense to insult us about it...

But it annoys me, not offends. It really just sounds ridiculous to me. :)

Miristheiss · Answer

Yes,

Don't call me that stupid shit.

I'm a man. I'm not a cis man I'm a freaking man. Quit effing with the stupid language and mutating the meaning of words.

A woman is a woman. Not a cis woman or birthing person or menstruating person.

D_Bone_Steak · Answer

I just think it's dumb. It is used as a slur... but by people that should be called slurs.

What's more annoying is the wannabe intellectuals will define it for you like we all haven't heard it over and over from the leftest types since 2016-ish. We get it... they think they're special and they want to call normal people names. The virtue signalers that want to be normal placate to it which just makes it worse. I can't help but roll my fucking eyes at all my kid's teachers putting She/her as their pronouns.

We need someone to attack, and all this gay shit will run and hide again like the cockroaches they are.

Anonymous · Answer

I am more offended by the idea that i am suppose to believe their ideas as divorced from meaningful reality as they are.

I don't care whats in your head and how you feel about other people. That isn't knowable and relevant to me, what matters before I get to know you is what you have in your pants.

That is what i call gender which is a synonym for Sex, a word that otherwise refers to the act which is possible if both parties are not the same.

That most cultures around the world have found certain behaviors and attitudes better suit particular sexes success is an expected and naturally helpful arrangement. Women should act like women and men like men not because its what they might randomly choose but because it is helpful to them being successful in life.

standardguy · Answer

I get offended not only if they call me that way but any man or woman and I hear it. Normal man or women dont need a special adjective, only the abnormal ones. And calling somebody a cis man means not accepting the creation order of God. Somebody like that fights against God, the king of kings.

richardcory · Answer

Don't care much but if someone wants to know my identity, I identify as "male". I'm only willing to disclose my orientation to potential romantic partners in which case I'll identify as "straight". If a potential romantic partner asks, I would also say I am biologically male.

The term "cis" seems like a waste of time to me since it describes the great majority of people.

Drewtate · Answer

I prefer the term Hetrosexual straight or normal, my pronouns are he/him. If the lgbtq refuse to refer to me this way then it's a hetrophobic microaggression.

Friendlybro79 · Answer

For the people that get offended grow up. This doesn't really have any impact on your life. The people that have a problem with this talk about it the most and irritate themselves.

Also, if you don't understand, and claim to not get it, or can't keep up, stop acting stupid. Take ten minutes to read something and then you'll understand how it works. Then you can still choose to believe what you want because no one can stop you. Just stop whining.

I work in a very diverse place, live in a very diverse space, and in normal every day conversation the only ones bringing this up are conservatives. They all work themselves up. That's on you. Grow up and mind your business. No one is firing you. If you're getting fired for discriminating someone because of all the legal reasons you can be fired, well that's also on you.

Everyone has a right to be happy so shut up haha. Have a good day everyone

Anonymous · Answer

Yes, because "cis" is intended to be offensive. If you have a problem with being called "cisgender" then you should get why trans people don't like being called "transgender"

"Cis is only offensive if trans is offensive" they think they are being clever. But really, they just resent the fact that normal people aren't suffering from the same mental illness.

Anonymous · Answer

Just focus on your goal. The world is full of things that will upset you. Based on the law of polarity that is natural. However, you've been given the ability to choose what you will focus on. No point in focusing on things that upset you. It's just a losing game.

provokeesmokee · Answer

> I'm not a cis man Congrats on coming out as trans.

petitedollbabee · Answer

Not at all, since there’s nothing offensive about it. Cis man/woman simply means that your gender identity is the same as your sex assigned at birth. Personally don’t see how that could be offensive?

EricSummer · Answer

No, that's fine. I know Latin, and "cis" is the opposite of "trans". So this is an efficient way to say "not trans". While a large majority is cis the word can occasionally make sense when discussing matters of gender diversity.

Sour-rose · Answer

Who... da faq puts in the effort to call someone in public a "cis man"? Where da hell are you living for this to happen? I've never... Never in my l- like are you fkin' wif me or sum'?

Effably · Answer

Simple context.

I have been in enough LGBTQ groups to know it is primarily used as a slur there.
I have also been in enough academia to know it is a useful term in its own right.

As a rule of thumb if someone goes out of their way to use the label when there is no utility in doing so, it comes with a negative undertone. If it serves an actual purpose, it tends to be fine.

goaded · Answer

No, but it does seem superfluous unless you're discussing trans rights or something similar. It's not nearly as bad as using the prefix trans- for someone when it's not (or shouldn't be) the subject of discussion.

DevikaButts95 · Answer

Cis is just an additional descriptor here. But to be fair, I imagine trans men would also just like to be called what they are, men.

Anemone978 · Answer

It is annoying but that is why I don't even speak with these people.. but when I see it on papers that I have to fill in I think it is very stupid..

FinalFantasyBro · Answer

What's the fuck is cis even mean? Yes I would be really annoyed if someone just called me a cis male and not just male. I don't mind what other people want to be called but don't put everyone in the same position you either called me a man or a guy or just shut up I ain't this cringe cis nonsense.

DermalPunch · Answer

Thankfully, I don't live in a place where this gender nonsense is tolerated. But I would expressly, shoot down any attempt to label me as such or as me my pronouns.

Anonymous · Answer

I'm not offended but annoyed yea. There's like only 0.00something% of trans people in the world. that's not big enough of a community to ask people for pronouns or use cis on a daily basis. got no problem with trans people though

EmmaMary · Answer

Thankfully I've never been called that in real life.

LaFemmeFatale_1 · Answer

That would be weird but I would find it very entertaining and funny if someone decided to say I am a cis woman instead of just woman.

Juxtapose · Answer

I'm not concerned what a bunch of people who don't even understand their own identity think about me.

OfDeath · Answer

A little bit because the word cis was just made up so people with gender dysphoria don't have to say normal and admit that they are not. I'm a normal man as opposed to someone pretending to be a man who has female genitalia.

BigRed1987 · Answer

Yeah I think it’s ridiculous that the trans community wants normal people to refer to them as a man or a woman, but we non-trans have to now be cis?

Your mental illness is not changing the way I use words, nope

Yucy_Gluttony · Answer

OFFENDED NO BUT ANNOYED. I STICK TO THE OLD TERMS. IT CAN BE UNDERSTOOD BY ALL. But that doesss bring up a question can I DM ya?

Anonymous · Answer

If ONLY people were smart enough to do their own research... The LGBTQRS are laughing at you.

Anonymous · Answer

It doesn’t bother me at all but I see no need for it… (since gender is a construct transgenderism makes no sense to me so I see no requirement for these terms of clarification)

Lynx122 · Answer

No but if someone says that as an insult to me I'll still stay away from them ^^

DarkWinterNights · Answer

Yes. The only people who use it are people who aren’t or are “ally’s” wrapped up in that space and it’s usually used in a derogatory manner. I’m very tired of people who obsess over labels and pronouns and create an entire personality around them forcing everyone else to partake.

RavVid · Answer

I don't appreciate idiots who can't recognize that there are only XX and XY genders and try to put a gender on me that doesn't exist. Also don't appreciate spell checks that pass XX but red line XY.

DextroShade · Answer

If someone ever called me that I would just say that there are just normal men and delusional freaks.

Anonymous · Answer

No because it’s true, although I am exploring my gender options so that might not be true forever

fonduegirl · Answer

When I call someone that, it means they're transphobic and I hate them 😊

Anonymous · Answer

It disgusts me 🤮. It doesn’t offend me. LMAOO. That’s new terminology THE WEAK have come up with 🤡

ProbablyClueless · Answer

It doesn't offend me, but it kinda throws me off... like... why call me that, though?

menina · Answer

I wouldn't get offended at all. That's what I am, a cis woman. The only way I would be offended would be if a trans person called me "cis woman" because they thought that I was being transphobic.

_piotr · Answer

Yes. I do not support this madness. There are only two genders: men and women.

Gays and lesbians are men and women respectively. [You can also use terms: "heterosexual" and "homosexual" if needed.]

"Transmen" are women pretending to be men, "transwomen" are men in drag.

There is no need for this cis- silliness.

Stillsleeping · Answer

It doesn't offend me, but all of this gender identity gobbledygook they've invented has become ridiculous beyond reason.

Anonymous · Answer

I have bigger things to be worried about than being called a cis woman tbh, that’s the least of my worries lmao

gothbxtch · Answer

no i am a cis woman. i was assigned a girl at birth and i am a girl.

Adam1978 · Answer

That like painting yourself as a clown in my opinion. It doesn't offend me but I do lose respect of the one that use that term.

zero444440000 · Answer

no i don't care if people call me a cis man lol.

worldscolide · Answer

The term cis was literally coined and created by a prolific child rapist. I tend to get violent when people use that term. I see it the same as someone using the n word.

stepyo99 · Answer

Agreed. I'm not cisgendered, I'm normal. Everybody else is a dysfunctional freak.

summiter · Answer

I agree it is difficult to keep up with all the cis, they, them stuff.

genericname85 · Answer

no. i think "getting offended" solves no problems. i think people who use "taking offense" as a method to controll others are assholes.

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