Is Truth Winning? Musk, Rowling Deride Use of Term ‘Cisgender’

Is “cisgender” about to be relegated to the dustbin of history?

The term, which has relentlessly been popularized by gender ideologues and their liberal media allies, refers to a person “whose gender identity aligns with the sex assigned to them at birth,” as the Human Rights Campaign, a major LGBT activist group, puts it in a handout.

It’s a term that has a clear ideological objective: Get people to buy into the idea that one’s gender identity and biological sex can be different. That’s the foundational principle of the transgender movement. After all, if it’s not true that gender identity and biological sex can be different, why does anyone “need” to transition to become their “true” gender?

But now billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk and “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling—who has already faced the full fury of the gender ideology mob for her prior comments—have pushed back on the term, with Rowling calling it “ideological language.”

Earlier this week, James Esses, a writer and co-founder of Thoughtful Therapists, tweeted, “I formally and publicly declare that I reject the label of ‘cis.’ I don’t believe in gender ideology. I don’t self-identify as ‘cis’.”

“Using this term makes me feel unsafe and is demonstrative of your hatred towards me,” he added. “Anyone who uses the term ‘cis’ to describe me is a bigot.”

Now, under the general terms of the leftist mindset, self-identity should be—pardon the triggering language—the ultimate trump card when it comes to getting your way regarding language, right? After all, it is our feelings that reveal our truest reality, not something inane like our bodies.

And as the rush to adopt “preferred” pronouns should supposedly demonstrate, don’t all words need to cater to an individual’s feelings?

But, at least on Twitter, Esses faced ample hostility. “Yesterday, after posting a Tweet saying that I reject the word ‘cis’ and don’t wish to be called it, I receive a slew of messages from trans activists calling me ‘cissy’ and telling me that I am ‘cis’ ‘whether or not I like it,’” he tweeted Tuesday. (On Thursday, he tweeted that he had received death threats as well.)

Musk responded to Esses’ “cissy” tweet, saying, “Repeated, targeted harassment against any account will cause the harassing accounts to receive, at minimum, temporary suspensions. The words ‘cis’ or ‘cisgender’ are considered slurs on this platform.”

Then Rowling—no stranger to the power of words—tweeted why the fight over the word “cis” matters.

“‘Cis’ is ideological language, signifying belief in the unfalsifiable concept of gender identity,” she wrote. “You have a perfect right to believe in unprovable essences that may or may not match the sexed body, but the rest of us have a right to disagree, and to refuse to adopt your jargon.”

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/06/23/elon-musk-j-k-rowling-bash-cisgender-term/

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