cis is an abusive term

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I don't want to be called a 'cis' nor referred to as 'cis' in any sort of patronising way. Not sure if I really understand but from the way it is bandied about it does not sound good.

I am a woman not a 'cis'

Yep.

Yes, it's creating a category where none exists.

Agreed and I wish MNHQ would take a stand on it and delete it as hate speech.

It's nonsense as far as I'm concerned. I am not cis.

I've also never come across it apart from here.

'Cis' is based on the assumption that biological women are just one type of women, and full of oppressor-privilege at that.

I find it offensive. So many other terms are discouraged and/or deleted because someone finds them offensive so this should be the same.

Yes, it implies I accept my place as inferior in the gender hierarchy - I certainly do not. Applied to women, it's akin to being called underling or skivvy.

I thought cis just meant you are biologically a woman, as opposed to a transwoman?

Believe it or not, I actually first heard the term on South Park and thought it was a pisstake like all the made up words that the "gender fluid" and militants trans community shout about

I thought cis just meant you are biologically a woman, as opposed to a transwoman?

See?? Look what this shit is doing?

No pipgirl the term for a biological adult female is woman.

There is no need for a separate category for a group which makes up the majority.
It's yet another case of bending over backwards to accommodate a small group of people who would then, presumably, take over "woman" as their category.

I didn’t even need to add biological there. There is only one kind of female.

I find it offensive, too.

Yes yes yes. I find it very offensive

If it's only the trans community that use the term cis, where is the offence coming from?
More than happy for someone to explain, as I'm honestly not seeing it?

I agree yet it is creeping in. My teenage dd used the word, I put her straight.

I though male/female was always the used term for your sex, but man/woman is what you identify as... I can see why "cis" would not be needed in that instance?

I've never read much of the threads so I have no idea what the general consensus is on the trans community here, I'm not trying to sound thick/ignorant.

If someone addressed me as a 'cis female' I would say to them that I find that term abusive and can they not use it again.

If it's only the trans community that use the term cis, where is the offence coming from?

Trans people using it about non trans people. How can you not see the offence?

Man/woman is what some people identify as. They don’t get to identify the rest of us according to their own preferences.

I'm starting to feel thick... I don't see the offence because we aren't trans people? Is this not just a fact?

Agree with what posters above say and I'd also add that 'cis' is intended to point to our vaginas. TIMs claim that it's rude to make assumptions about what's in their pants, but then they demand that we call ourselves 'cis', which points to what is in our pants by default. At all times we are supposed to refer to ourselves using a word that reminds people of our genital status, and the privilege we supposedly derive from it.

A wise poster here once translated 'cis woman' to mean 'the old-fashioned, cunty kind of woman', and that's exactly right. With the emphasis on cunt. Whenever a TRA or a handmaiden refers to 'cis women', that's what they mean. Those lowly and yet grossly overprivileged creatures with cunts.

To be clear, I (female) don’t identify as a woman. I AM a woman.

"man/woman is what you identify as..."

So what do you call an adult human female?

I've maybe just not seen enough of the "bad" side of the trans community? Maybe I'm just not bothered about it? I just can't see the offence in it. I've never seen anyone demand I call myself a transwoman so I'll bow out on this one as I am clueless.