Comment on A 19-year old cis lesbian woman was beaten unconscious and robbed after she tried to use the women's restroom at a McDonald's in Carpentersville, Illinois

Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• destructdisc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  …trans lesbians also exist

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• spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Cis = cisgender = she was assigned female at birth and is not transgender

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  • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Nice. I appreciate the simple explanation. And fuck this place for downvoting people looking for explanations. Just lemmy flavoured reddit dickheads.

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• glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Cisgender means “gender match (birth) genitals”

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• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Cis is short for cisgender. It’s the antonym of transgender. Has nothing to do with sexuality.

  Cis-het would be cisgender, heterosexual.

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• StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Trans comes from “on the other side” as cis comes from “on the same side”.

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• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If you know how to create an account and post here, you also know how to look up words.

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  • MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s about having a conversation. Who knows, maybe a bunch of people that were confused on terms learned from this.

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    • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      🧐

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  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You are clearly overestimating the American public education system.

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  • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Okay, I’ll never ask a question about anything I don’t know ever again.

    Please suck my genitals on your way to go fuck yourself.

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I think a lot of people don’t. The word ‘cis’ seems to have been invented because some people object to the term biologically-female or biologically-male, but that’s generally what it means.

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  • Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Cis and trans have existed since Rome was a thing

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    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      So has the french language but it still isn’t going to adequately convey the meaning of biological sex to most Americans.

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      • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        No, French did not exist at the same time as the Roman Empire.

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  • pack_of_racoons@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    To add, cisgender is not that new of a word, it’s been around since the 90s in English. Using the term “biological male/female” is an immidate red flag as it carries with it the insinuation that trans identities are not ligitimate; you could just say “not trans.” Hence the heavy use by right wingers and bigots.

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    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Thank you for your response.

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      • will_steal_your_username@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Specifically transhobes prefer saying biological this and that rather than use a trans persons gender identity as a way to purposefully invalidate them

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