socialjusticescars:

socialjusticescars: wolffloop: “cisphobia” is a made up concept by cis people for cis people, who want to tone-police and silence a horribly mistreated group of people who are speaking up. Yes they are just speaking up they’re not … The problem is that you keep going back to ‘no one is murdered for being cis, its not institutionalized!’ Just because something is not institutionalized doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. People on this site send death threats to other people just because they are cis. People on this site insult, demean, put down, shame, and threaten cis people on this site - as well as straight, white, and male people. Cisphobia may not be institutionalized or widespread, but people on this site consider hurting or killing themselves because someone sends them death threats or hurtful messages or they repeatedly see these things on Tumblr. Treating an entire group in a toxic way just because some members of that group do the same to you is wrong and solves nothing. It just creates further hate, further separation, and can lead people to hurt or kill themselves. No one is killed for being cis, sure - but people can kill themselves for being cis because of the way people on this site hurt them, “An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.” You can’t fight hatred with hatred, all that does is breed more hatred. If you are a weak man, you will hurt those who hurt you. If you are a strong man, you will not bring yourself to the level of those who hurt you.

Did you even read my commentary?

The whole point is that the term ‘cisphobia’ was created as an analogous term to 'transphobia’, implying that the two are essentially,opposite sides of the same coin. This is blatantly untrue, because as even you have acknowledged, transphobia is institutionalised where 'cisphobia’ is not. I’m not entirely sure that you and other anti-sj people understand the full weight of that, but it goes far beyond 'hatred’. Hatred is something conscious; transphobia goes beyond that. The majority of the people on this planet are essentially programmed to be transphobic, to treat trans people as 'other’ by instinct. That’s - well, that can manifest itself in hate, but hate is only one symptom of the disease, so to speak. 'Cisphobia’ is only representative of that symptom.

Am I saying that so-called hate is justified? No. But I will tell you this - never, in my eight or nine years of being on the internet and my two or three years on this specific website have I seen a cis person, any cis person,personally attacked out of the blue for being cis. I have seen anonymous troll messages pretending to be from trans people attacking cis people. I have seen humorous posts made by trans people insulting, as you say, cis people, but these are clearly not intended to harm and even if they are, they are hitting back at their own oppression, not attacking any one cis person personally. I have seen posts made by trans people correcting transphobic and transexclusive posts. These posts have been 'insulting’, maybe, but again, they are hitting back at their own oppression, which the people who make transphobic and transexclusionary posts are perpetuating. Maybe I’ve not been circulating the same circles of the internet as you have, but at the end of the day, it all goes to show that you cannot claim 'cisphobia’ is a thing because the majority of trans people are not cisphobic in the same way that the majority of cis people are transphobic, through no fault of their own but societal programming.

I’m not saying that cis people have not been triggered by 'hate’, or that they consider hurting or killing themselves because of it. But that is a separate conversation to do with the dismantling of privilege and the necessity of acknowledging the fact that trans people and those who support them are not attacking individual people, they are attacking the system of oppression that is transphobia and those who perpetuate it, meaning that it is not 'attack’, but 'defence’.

That is simply not comparable to the malicious abuse or the ignorant perpetuation of transphobia by cis people.

By no means do I expect you to agree with me, especially judging by your blog, as you hardly seem to have an open mind. But you are comparing a problem that is genuinely killing people and diminishing the quality of their lives - you talk of cis people wanting to kill themselves, are you aware that more than 50% of trans people will have attempted to commit suicide by their 20th birthday? - to one that essentially does not exist.

Anyone who has even a fraction of the idea of what oppression is would never compare the hurt caused by 'attacks on cis people’ to actual oppression, because it makes that oppression seem lesser than it truly is. The term 'cisphobia’ inherently means comparing the two things. If you think that it’s acceptable, you need to have a long think about why.