Had you read the whole thread you would see that I too have friends who are trans, both male and female. I make no judgements, totally accept a person's choice to live as a member of the sex they were not born into. Most poster's here say the very same thing, over and over again. It just gets ignored
I DO NOT accept the 'othering' of women, the biological kind, that many of the more politicised, loud, outspoken, aggressive, radical - pick your term - male who chooses to make his first port of call in his trans journey to try to change the very definition of female. I outlined the weird dichotomy of it on page 1 or 2.
The term cis should make every single female's teeth itch! It is a misapplication of a very specific scientific term and is used specifically to remove biological females from the central definition of woman!
If you don't agree you need to think about it... you as a biological female are no longer the very definition of female... why not?
Because a man who wishes to live as a woman wants to have that definition include himself... so a woman with a penis is as much a woman as a biological female. And just so we can tell the difference the biological male gets to be called a woman and the biological female gets to be called a cis woman.
Why?
If you think that is an over reaction - and this time last year I probably would have agreed with you - you need to have a look at various laws that have already been modified in the UK... the one that says it is a hate crime to refuse to call a man who says he is a woman 'she' for example, linked to earlier in this thread.
That is not a man who has made any efforts to live as a woman, just one who says he is a woman! Which is why you may have also seen "I wish to be seen as a penguin" type comments!