Elon Musk’s Twitter Plans To Censor People For Using the Word “Cisgender”
Untold millions of human beings feel disconnected from the gender they were assigned at birth. Some choose to identify as the opposite gender to which they were assigned. These people have come to be known as transgender. Due to the confines of human communication, that requires a word to describe people who are not transgender. That word is “cisgender,” sometimes shortened to “cis,” much like “transgender” is shortened to “trans.”
Over the past two years, the American Right has become absolutely fixated on the transgender community. Elon Musk, apparently, feels the same way. Recently, Musk tweeted, “The words ‘cis’ or ‘cisgender’ are considered slurs on this platform,” echoing a newly-pervasive a decidedly-mythical notion that the word “cis” is primarily used as a derogatory term. It is not. The spreading of this piece of disinformation is part of a coordinated effort to make life difficult for an oppressed community. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either lying or misinformed.
