INDY500
Rock n' Roll Doggie Band-aid
Facebook sex changes: which one of 50 genders are you? - Telegraph
The world only spins forward. Dissent is not an option.
The world only spins forward. Dissent is not an option.
Biological sex and gender identity: differences and overlaps
- Thread starter INDY500
- Start date
The friendliest place on the web for anyone that follows U2.
If you have answers, please help by responding to the unanswered posts.
If you have answers, please help by responding to the unanswered posts.
PhilsFan
Blue Crack Addict
Who fucking cares?
INDY500
Rock n' Roll Doggie Band-aid
What kinda attitude is that? Isn't choosing one's gender a civil right? Well it soon will be and apathy will not be an option. You will be shamed, bullied or indoctrinated into caring.
You wanted a consequence of same-sex marriage and its insistence on the interchangeability of the sexes?
Here ya go.
PhilsFan
Blue Crack Addict
What are you even talking about? Those are like two contradictory sentences and I can't understand your point.
cobl04
45:33
Although that list is pretty fucking ridiculous, who gives a shit what someone wants to identify as? INDY, if you are implying that you would be outraged if someone from the other side of the country decides to call themselves one of those 50 genders, you need to take a long hard look at yourself. It's not you, and it doesn't affect you.
Irvine511
Blue Crack Supplier
Irvine511
Blue Crack Supplier
you keep saying you're not ignorant, but then you go and post things like this.
you have no idea what you're talking about.
again, are you confused? do you think because i'm gay i'm also transgendered?
corianderstem
Blue Crack Distributor
Well gosh, if it wasn't for same-sex marriage being legalized, no one would even think to identify as transgender or anything other than just plain ol' male or female!
Apparently there have never been any transgender people before this!
Apparently there have never been any transgender people before this!
Vlad n U 2
Blue Crack Addict
- Joined
- Jul 6, 2008
- Messages
- 28,386
I don't see anything wrong with the Facebook thing, it's good. Although a lot of the genders listed are essentially the same thing, no? (ie. Cis Male and Cisgender Male) It comes down to which term one prefers.
Galeongirl
Galeonbroad
I do not see why this whole facebook thing has to be mentioned here. INDY, if you want to start a discussion on the whole transgender community and facebook, be my guest but start a new thread.
Since transgenderism has nothing to do with the topic of this thread.
Since transgenderism has nothing to do with the topic of this thread.
LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
Apparently, the gay can spread virtually. The internet needs to be quarantined until we get this gay thing all sorted out.
bono_212
Blue Crack Distributor
I'm confused... Male and Female aren't on that list. Are they just a given, or is there some other way it's being phrased? One of the acronyms I don't recognize? I'm sincerely asking this question....
Galeongirl
Galeonbroad
There's three options, male, female and other. Other gives you this list of possibilities.
bono_212
Blue Crack Distributor
OoOooOooo, thanks!
PhilsFan
Blue Crack Addict
Is this concept of cisgender a new one? Because this Facebook thing is the first I've heard of it.
LuckyNumber7
Blue Crack Addict
I imagine they did a massive study just to make sure not to step on any toes by including every last desired gender title but one.
corianderstem
Blue Crack Distributor
I've seen 'cis' or 'cisgender' mentioned a lot on certain blogs/sites in the past year or so.
jeevey
Rock n' Roll Doggie Band-aid
No, it's a common term in gender theory circles. It means, people who identify as the gender they were assigned at birth. It's an effort to normalize people who wear all these other identities by pointing out that the most common gender identification model is in fact an identification model, not a natural state, and refusing to call it the 'normal' one.
Irvine511
Blue Crack Supplier
i heard about cisgender just a few weeks ago, like i wasn't aware of it as a term as recently as 2013, and i've had some exposure and experience with transgendered individuals.
anyone who's ever met someone brave enough to live out the gender they identify with when it's opposite the one they were given at birth is incredibly brave and deserving of empathy and support. it's an incredibly difficult thing -- can you imagine growing up and feeling incredible discomfort not with how your own body looks (as we all do) but with what it actually is? to think that anyone takes it lightly is insulting.
trans individuals have a journey much harder than that of gay folk, and i can't pretend to know their struggle, not just with themselves, but because of how acceptable it is to ridicule them and how often they are targets of violence, not just by men but by women as well.
Galeongirl
Galeonbroad
Here I thought cisgender was a pun, seeing as in Chemistry you have Cis and Trans configurations of molecules. 
jeevey
Rock n' Roll Doggie Band-aid
Could be--I don't know what the origin of the term is!
bono_212
Blue Crack Distributor
Which one?
LuckyNumber7
Blue Crack Addict
None in particular, just referring to whatever label anyone might feel they've never heard of.
INDY500
Rock n' Roll Doggie Band-aid
That says it all. Normal is now a pejorative in "gender theory circles." Normal is "just an identification model." Normal is not inclusive you see.
Now some of us are more than satisfied with the two biological sexes and think this all the nonsensical theories of gender studies post-grad dissertations*. An early April Fools joke. But alas, as I said, this is our future. The next civil right. The Left needs a new supply of victims to illustrate the inherent bigotry of America. The Left needs to remove the Adam and Eve notion of the sexes from the conversation.
* Which is not to say there isn't a very, very small percentage of the population that truly struggles with this and deserves empathy, counseling and reassignment surgery or hormone therapy when warranted. This can be done on a personal level however.
PhilsFan
Blue Crack Addict
This is some "Bush did 9/11" YouTube comment type shit.
trojanchick99
Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB
Here I thought cisgender was a pun, seeing as in Chemistry you have Cis and Trans configurations of molecules.
Cis is a Latin prefix meaning this side of, where trans means the other side or across. Trans meaning you identify as a different gender than the sex you were born As and cis the same. So yeah it's a similar idea to cis and trans in chemistry.
I work at a university, not in academia, so I've been familiar with the terms for a while. Also, this is obviously not the correct thread to discuss sex versus gender.
bono_212
Blue Crack Distributor
I'm sorry to continue the discussion, but I'm just more confused now. What's the difference between identifying as Male and identifying as Cismale?
trojanchick99
Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB
Its more specific, signifying that you were born male and identify male. If you identify transman or trans male, you were born female and identify male.
