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“Cis is a heterosexual slur” Tweets Elon Musk, Who Halved Twitter’s Value — Assigned (www.assignedmedia.org)

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[-] Rottcodd@kbin.social 76 points 1 year ago

Well... except that "cis" is actually a shortened form of the precise, latin-rooted, technical term "cisgender," which is the opposite of the precise, latin-rooted, technical term "transgender."

And it has nothing at all to do with heterosexuality, or with sexual preference in any way, shape or form.

So he's not just wrong, but wrong in pretty much every way he could possibly have been.

Which seems to be pretty much par for the course for the world's richest middle-aged teenage edgelord.

[-] radix@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

A few years ago, my mother laughed at me for being impressed she knew what "cis" meant. She said she learned it from chemistry, something about molecules being flipped, where flipping it one way is cis and the other is trans. I was so prepared to have to talk her down from thinking it was a slur that it was a relief.