Resurrecting this to continue a discussion I was having with DrDeth in an IMHO thread hijack:
Maybe, maybe not. But I’ve spoken to many people whose gender identity matched their biological sex about the word “cis”, and none of them were offended by it. And much more significantly, I am cis. If a trans person tells me about a word, or a gay person, then I have no experience to fall on – I can only take their word for it (and the word of other trans and gay people). But I am cis, and I have personal experience being cis, and it hasn’t been explained to my satisfaction how it’s offensive to people, like me, whose gender ID matches their biological sex. That means it will take a whole lot more than a single person, or two people, or one article, for me to stop using cis to describe people (except for those individuals, like yourself, who prefer not to be).
That’s fine. Does that mean if I tell you “don’t use human any more”, you’ll stop? Or “don’t use American any more”? Or because you’re human, and American (presumably – if not, substitute your own nationality), do you actually have experience in those categories and are able to evaluate whether those words are offensive?
It’s different when you’re not a member of that group. I take black people’s word for what slurs are offensive to them. Same goes for gay people and trans people. But for people whose gender matches their biological sex? I don’t have to take their word – I have personal experience, as much as any other person in this group. So I won’t use the word for you, or others who have expressed their offense at “cis”, but unless I have some indication that most cis people object to being called cis, then I’ll continue to use it in broader discussions about gender identity as a way to distinguish people whose gender identity matches their biological sex.