Article by Pink News: In a Twitter conversation, site owner Elon Musk attempts to reframe "cis" as a slur, deliberately making the site even more overtly hostile to trans and LGBT+ folks
The fact that anti-trans groups are trying to remove the ability for trans-people to describe non trans people on an equal footing is pretty fucking insane.
Reminds me of when unlikely hub of transphobia Mumsnet which has partially driven the huge amount of transphobia both in the government and society (JK Rowling) said "we're not transphobic, actually" then in the same post said the word "cis" was banned.
Cis definitely isn't a slur, but repeatedly DMing people and calling them "cissy" and saying "you can't change who you are" or whatever is 100% harassment.
I get that it's supposed to be a mirror of people's treatment of trans people, and that makes sense, but then being upset that it's called harassment seems silly when that's exactly what it is. Not to say that it's comparable to transphobia or any other type of more serious harassment though, because it's really not.
Elon Musk sucks but he isn't (yet) saying that just saying that someone is cis is inherently harassment. I won't be surprised if he immediately follows it up with that though, because that's the way these things tend to go.
The words “cis” or “cisgender” are considered slurs on this platform.
So yes, simply using those words is now grounds for being banned from Twitter as far as Musk is concerned. So whatever you consider "harassment" or not, is irrelevant.
I somehow understand people who still have a community over there, but ultimately these people should realize that them staying over there will convince others to stay too and ultimately that may end up hurting all of them.
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