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Delivery · 16/04/2025 22:27

Just read an article about the Supreme Court judgement today. It repeatedly refers to Cis women. I get so unbelievably annoyed by that term.

I am not a ‘Cis’ woman. I just hate the term. If you want to be a trans woman, fine. That’s what you are. Don’t make me the other side of your imaginary coin. Don’t make me call myself something I’m not. Don’t make me part of your ‘We’re all just at various points on the woman spectrum’ nonsense.

There are women. And there are trans women. Two entirely different things.

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SapphOhNo · 16/04/2025 23:43

Can't get too exercised over it. Count yourself lucky if that's what you have to worry about

Skyellaskerry · 16/04/2025 23:40

Gattopardo · 16/04/2025 23:11

I hate it as a term: I get very cross when people suggest I am this.

luckily my workplace is great, and our training makes clear CIS is a contested term which some people find offensive ;)

I dont imagine your workplace is typical, so many use cis in training, definitions, policies, etc, without such qualification or consideration that it can be offensive.

Skyellaskerry · 16/04/2025 23:37

I find the term offensive and react when hearing it. I think it needs to be called out more.

onwardsup4 · 16/04/2025 23:18

😂 “we are on various points of the woman spectrum” fucking hell. YNBU it’s an absolute piss take.

nocoolnamesleft · 16/04/2025 23:13

I consider cis to be a slur. I am a woman.

Gattopardo · 16/04/2025 23:11

I hate it as a term: I get very cross when people suggest I am this.

luckily my workplace is great, and our training makes clear CIS is a contested term which some people find offensive ;)

ChickenNuggetDreamland · 16/04/2025 23:10

Also detest it with all my might.

You’re either a man, a woman…or a man that wants to wear a dress and think he’s a woman.

ThatNimblePeer · 16/04/2025 23:09

You’ve led a very easy life if this is what bugs you.

ErrolTheDragon · 16/04/2025 23:08

It always was an unnecessary, manipulative prefix forced on us, but today’s judgement surely should render it obsolete in the U.K.
(well, except for legitimate uses. I’ll still call some molecules cis.)

Devilsmommy · 16/04/2025 23:00

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Sassysoonwins · 16/04/2025 22:55

I'd go so far as to say there are men and there are women full stop.

Barbadosgirl · 16/04/2025 22:54

Loathe it. YANBU

Yellowhammer09 · 16/04/2025 22:31

YANBU. I detest the term.