Banning the term "cis"

[OlennasWimple]

Apologies if this had already been done, but can MNHQ consider banning the term "cis", given how horrifically offensive so many users of MN find it?

I don't think I need to set out the background and reasoning to this request (but can do so if it would help!)

[OlennasWimple]

Hello MNHQ, just wondering how your pondering on this issue is going?

[KatherineMumsnet]

Hi there OlennasWimple,

Our view, as RebeccaMumsnet mentions in her post above, hasn't changed.

We don't think that banning terms is the right way to go about things at this point. As per TG's, we still strongly believe that civility and respect towards others and their points of view is key. We would much prefer to look at each case in the wider context of the thread.

If anyone persistently misgenders by using the incorrect pronoun (and we include cis in this) then please do report to us and we will take a look.

[MisDescamisados]

Blow me that anyone be offended ar being assigned labels, once again , by 1 people born male - however they identify - and their collaborators , and 2 insist that this label - which actually insinuates that women are content with the abuse the gender "woman" has piled on them ,via their biology - is harmless.


Forgive thus uppity woman pointing out that this is highly ironic - issuing as it does from people who insist that only the labels they assign themselves - must ever be used .
Both ways it cannot be had cupcakes . No.

As the ever on point R R-Cooper once remarked, if gender is a spectrum, what is trans ?
By extension, who is "cis"?

As to this piffle about it being a way to distinguish women from trans woman, I can only posit that this is a blatantly obvious attempt to linguistically erase the term "transwoman" in relation to woman , and replace it with " woman" and "ciswoman".
Again nope.

Finally " assigned"? No. Doctors and midwives do not cut the umbilical cord , then blindfold, reach into a tombola and see whether a pink or blue ball emerges .

Triple nope. They note biological sex .

[bakeoffcake]

So you won't ban the word 'cis' which many, many people have told you they find highly offensive. But you do ban women who refuse to call a man "she" because we little women have to respect men's wishes?