smirkingbenevolence:

ikanii:

smirkingbenevolence: Keep on winning those dominant paradigm cookies. Cis is a chemistry term that reflects non trans. Are you really going to argue and complain about that term? Cis isn’t a “thinly veiled flowery jab of a label for people who were born into a body that reflects their gender identity”, it’s a handy way of describing people with congruent sex and gender; also it is a well accepted term. <sarcasm> Cis is an exclusion from the trans* club. Cis people don’t get to have our awesome Pink Ladies jackets either. </sarcasm> I’ll take you ftm claim at face value, but I do find it suspicious that it only comes out now. But your assimilationist attitude makes sense if that is the case. This isn’t social justice, this is my life. So now because I’m a passable, assertive trans-man, my opinion no longer matters where transsexual issues are concerned? Woooo boy. I get it. Only your opinion matters as a white Buddhist queer trans woman, am I right?. It’s a handy way to ostracize people is what you mean. It may be a chemistry term, but pretty hefty number of the “community” uses it in such saccharine terms, and you can’t deny that fact. If I had a nickel for every time I saw a trans person called someone “Cis scum,” I’d be able to afford my surgery. But if I had one for every time it was used as a backhanded description of somebody, I’d be able to buy my own fucking island. “Assimilationist” my ass. Because I don’t talk about how I’m trans at every possible opportunity? That’s bullshit because I’ve never identified as a trans-man in the first place, and that’s not how I describe myself. I’m a man and that’s all anybody needs to know.

In my first response to your post I asked if you were trans. It was the first sentence out of my mouth.

You responded with:

“Are you a trans* person? If not, why do you feel okay policing the language we choose to use?”

^Implying that it’s fine if I’m trans, but not okay if I’m not? It doesn’t matter whether or not I’m trans, I’ll say what I like. I wasn’t “policing your language”, I was making a joke about something that annoys me slightly.

You’re right it doesn’t matter whether or not you’re trans because you can be a cissexist prick regardless of gender identity.

What does matter is that if you are trans you can contribute to the discussion about the language that the trans community uses.

You gave me no indication until your SECOND reply to me that you are trans and even then you only added it in as a tag. If you don’t want to be associated with the trans community than why do you think that you’re entitled to contribute to the trans community.

So now because I’m a passable, assertive trans-man, my opinion no longer matters where transsexual issues are concerned?

If you’re a douchebro you’re a douchebro.

“Assimilationist” my ass. Because I don’t talk about how I’m trans at every possible opportunity? That’s bullshit because I’ve never identified as a trans-man in the first place, and that’s not how I describe myself. I’m a man and that’s all anybody needs to know.

So wait. You want cis male privilege and to police what a trans woman says? You want to consider yourself to be a man (nothing against that, seriously) with no other adjectives but still insert yourself into trans* conversations? You can’t have it both ways.

I don’t walk around talking about trans issues every day, or woman issues. But both are part of my daily lived experience. I don’t talk about my religion every chance I get either. [by the way, what was the point in bringing that up? Were you just trying to intimidate me with your ‘assertiveness’ by demonstrating that you could read my /about me?]

If you don’t understand the difference between ‘cis people’ and ‘cis scum’ then you have much bigger problems to wrangle than little old me.

Shit, if I had a nickel for every assimilationist trans man who treats non assimilationist trans people, especially women and genderqueers like shit I could quit my day job.

You sir, are a table.