Cis is not a slur

Elon Musk
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Last week, Elon Musk banned the terms “cis” and “cisgender” from Twitter, calling the terms “slurs.”

It’s much ado about perhaps the dullest term someone could have come up with to describe people whose gender identity aligns with their sex assigned at birth. The Latin prefix trans- means “on or to the other side of” and cis- is its Latin opposite: “on this side.”

That’s it. Someone learned a little Latin and came up with a boringly neutral opposite.

But Musk is far from the first cis person to claim oppression from the term “cisgender.” Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) said the same thing in April, calling the term…

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