Cisgender Radiators Outrage

[fender62]

when reading this article i was thinking is this story made up, are there really people like the guy in the article out there in the real world, how does he manage in public spaces.. petrified of men..really or his personal space...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10104329/College-student-mocked-complaining-cisgender-men-installed-radiators-room.html

[Untitled]

"No he isn't. That's a label people like you have stuck on him. He, and I, have decided to reject other people's assessments and impositions and take advantage of the modern fad for self-identifying. We've decided to identify as 'normal'. "

"cisgender" means essentially that you are not trans. If you aren't trans then you are cisgender.... sorry about it.

[pixie374]

I'm not cisgender. I don't identify as a woman (I just am one). And don't identify as trans. Maybe lose the presumptions?

[Untitled]

no.

[pixie374]

Lol. At least you're honest.

[Untitled]

"cisgender" is a word that trans people use for people who aren't like them... it isn't intended as aggressive demeaning or offensive and they obviously aren't going to call everyone else apart from themselves "normal" are they. If people don't like it then they can lump it... I'm sure they'll cope!

[naomi24]

Untitled. Keep your silly labels for those who want them. Leave the rest of us alone.

[pixie374]

It isn't. It means //denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender corresponds with their birth sex.//

So, do I identify as a woman? How do I know?

[Untitled]

no.

[Untitled]

you just said that you were one pixie.

[pixie374]

Tbf, the whole link is very odd. Peter- woman identifying as a man- on some reports (and by photo), identifying as a woman on others. I'm not entirely sure anyone knows what's happened here.

[pixie374]

I was what? I'm not cisgender- I don't identify either way. I'm a woman- because- no choice.

[AuntPG]

Like I said before, the story has no doubt been embellished to encourage more readers to click on the link -more income for the DM.

[naomi24]

Untitled, You don’t appear to recognise the irony in what you say. If I stuck an unwanted label on you, would you ‘lump it’? I’d hazard a guess it would be hissy fits all round.

[Untitled]

you believe yourself to be a woman, and (I'm assuming!) have female biology.

that's not true for everybody. Some people - thankfully not very many - are not as lucky as you and feel that the body they were born in is the 'wrong' one. They call the majority 'cisgender' because they need a name of some sort for it... I can't see why any "normal" person would have a problem with that...

[Untitled]

You can't label me, I'm untitled!

[AuntPG]

Untitled // They call the majority 'cisgender' because they need a name of some sort for it..//

There is a name -Heterosexual.

[pixie374]

I know untitled. But your view that I'm female so must be "cisgender"... is fairly ironic.

[pixie374]

That's not the same, apg... to most people.

[naomi24]

Heterosexual will do for me.

[Untitled]

sexuality is completely unrelated to this apg... some trans people have their sexual preferences unchanged when they change (and they become gay in their target gender) while others change.... trans people are a tiny minority and the vast majority of non-heterosexuals are not trans.

So the word for non-trans people arises... cisgender! :D