{"id":7933,"date":"2009-06-10T08:11:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T15:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7933"},"modified":"2009-06-10T08:11:54","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T15:31:42","slug":"why-we-need-the-word-cis-and-a-new-word-for-normal-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7933","title":{"rendered":"Equal vocabularies: Why we need the word "cis," and a new word for "normal weight.""},"content":{"rendered":"

On another thread<\/a>, Ron asks a 101-style question about the term \u201ccis\u201d:<\/p>\n

So \u201ccis-gender\u201d would be that your physical and your \u2026 what, mental? \u2026 gender are the same\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not mental and physical. Rather, it\u2019s that the gender you were assigned at birth, and the gender you identify as, are the same. (See Julia Serano\u2019s excellent FAQ on this subject<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Except that \u201ccis-gender\u201d is pretty much the default, so there\u2019s little need in normal discourse to use the term.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe it doesn\u2019t come up in your \u201cnormal\u201d discourse, Ron, but I find that the term is useful in my<\/em> day to day discourse.<\/p>\n

Plus, as a political matter, it\u2019s important that the unmarked \u201cdefaults\u201d have names. Imagine if, instead of the words \u201cJewish\u201d and \u201cChristian,\u201d we had only \u201cJewish\u201d and \u201cnormal.\u201d Or if, instead of \u201cheterosexual\u201d and \u201chomosexual,\u201d we had only \u201cnormal\u201d and \u201chomosexual.\u201d We can\u2019t discuss things on an equal basis without an equal vocabulary.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Which reminds me: We really need a vocabulary for weight. The current, official vocabulary is \u201cunderweight,\u201d \u201cnormal weight,\u201d \u201coverweight,\u201d and \u201cobese.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m happy to replace \u201cunderweight\u201d with \u201cthin\u201d or \u201cskinny\u201d (although of course, the real question is if those people medicine labels “underweight” are okay with that), and \u201coverweight\u201d and \u201cobese\u201d with \u201cfat.\u201d But I really hate calling the medically\/socially approved default body \u201cnormal\u201d (or just as awful, \u201chealthy\u201d). Suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On another thread, Ron asks a 101-style question about the term \u201ccis\u201d: So \u201ccis-gender\u201d would be that your physical and your \u2026 what, mental? \u2026 gender are the same\u2026 Not mental and physical. Rather, it\u2019s that the gender you were … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-fat-and-more-fat","category-transsexual-and-transgender-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}