Hi! I'm Maybe Burke and you're watching The Maybe List.
This is a video series tackling topics that leave people unsure how to feel,
and gives me an opportunity to tell you where I stand on them.
And this is Logan here to help.
Our topic for today: Is the term cisgender a slur?
so for those of you who are unfamiliar, cisgender is a term that we use
for people who identify with the gender that they were assigned at birth.
So basically, if you were born and the doctor said, "it's a boy," and you now identify as a man,
you're most likely cisgender.
The main function of the term is to have a counterpoint to the term transgender.
That way we don't have "women and trans women,"
we have women who might be cis women or trans women.
I've recently experienced a number of people pushing back on the therm cis.
This mainly comes from cisgender individuals who don't necessarily want
their gender to have to be categorized in any way.
I understand if you don't want to explain yourself as a woman in this world
or as a man in this world.
However, being able to just say that you're a woman or a man
and not have people question it is privilege that transgender individuals don't have.
The problem is, when we don't use the term cisgender, there seems to be a comparison between
women and trans women or men and trans men,
where the gender without an adjective before it seems to just be "normal"
which is horribly degrading for trans people
and so the term cisgender is actually not about cis people.
are you cisgender Logan?
It's okay, you can self identify.
People love to use the excuse of "we don't need anymore labels in the world,"
which ideally, no. I would love we didn't have labels.
I would love if I could just be a person and not have to use different words
to get people to understand who that person is.
however there's a privilege that comes with being able to just be a person
and be comfortable in this world.
I feel like privilege it's just like the topic of this series
if I were to say "I'm just a person" and not put any other descriptor with that,
Unfortunately with the way our world is set up, the "person" those people see would be a man
and that is not a comfortable place for me to start a conversation from.
so I have to use other words to define my gender in order for people to see me as the person that I am.
All that we're asking is that you use similar descriptors for your gender
so that we're not the only ones who have to do it.
Now I will say, I do understand where the hesitation for the word comes from.
Oftentimes, the only time somebody hears the word cisgender being used
it's when a trans person is frustrated.
There are plenty of examples, I am guilty of it too,
of people using the term cis as an insult, as a frustration, as "ugh cis people."
To which I have to say,
why don't you try listening to trans people when they're not frustrated?
you should be listening to trans people when they're not screaming in your faces
trying to get your attention about an injustice.
People who do use the word cisgender to identify themselves need to use it more often,
and in cases where trans people aren't in the room to normalize it so other cis people
can hear it and know that it's not a bad thing to say.
So if you're cis, that's not a bad thing.
Just like if you're trans it's not a bad thing. No gender is bad to be.
Unfortunately the only way we can get trans people to be comfortable living in this world
is if we get cisgender to stop being synonymous with normal.
We need the term cisgender.
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