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Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by dragonwriter on Friday October 28, 2022 @11:07PM (#33380606)
> Decouple the idea of normal from heterosexuality

Um, no, other than arguably being wrong on the broad kind of motivation in either case, you seem to have also confused the word “cisgender” (or “cis” for short) with the word “heterosexual”.

Transgender people can be heterosexual or homosexual or asexual or any other sexuality, and the same is true of cisgender people; having a term to refer to people who do not deviate from the until-recently-in-our-society culturally obligatory stereotypical relation of gender identity and sex characteristics at birth does nothing to reduce heteronormativity of language compared to just referring to them as “normal” (and then, depending on context, elaborating further on the axis of normality and possibly whose norms are being referenced), to the extent that having a word does that, its the word for people who don’t deviate from the until-recently-in-our-society culturally obligatory stereotype of sexual preference for partner gender based on their own gender.

But, independent of undermining the norms involved, its sometimes useful to be have a convenient concise term, which both “cisgender” and “heterosexual”, in their respective domains, provide.

Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by flippinburgers on Saturday October 29, 2022 @04:43AM (#33382199)
Nope. You can be a man or a woman. Or you, in a very minority case, might be trans. The point is that there is absolutely no need for the "cis" identifier.
Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by dragonwriter on Saturday October 29, 2022 @05:01AM (#33382289)
> You can be a man or a woman. Or you, in a very minority case, might be trans.

“Trans” is not a label for a third gender that one might have instead of and to the exclusion of man or woman, “trans” is (like, and in opposition to, “cis”) relationship between gender identity and “sex”—actually, ascribed gender—assigned at birth; it can coexists with any of man, woman, nonbinary, or other (or, in the agender case, no) gender identity.

Though your not knowing what “trans” means very clearly explains your not understanding the need for “cis”.

Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by hunchle on Saturday October 29, 2022 @05:56AM (#33382556)
> actually, ascribed gender—assigned at birth

No, it is actually an observation of sex - often observed prenatally, then confirmed at birth.

Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended by flippinburgers on Saturday October 29, 2022 @10:28AM (#33384294)
Correct it is not a third gender. It is a mentally ill state where you feel like you should be in the body of the opposite sex.