{"id":8222,"date":"2009-07-18T10:49:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T17:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8222"},"modified":"2009-07-18T10:49:31","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T17:49:31","slug":"hell-yes-transgriot-cisgender-is-not-an-insult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8222","title":{"rendered":"Hell Yes, TransGriot: Cisgender is Not an Insult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damn. A while ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/questioningtransphobia.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/29\/cis-is-hostile-terminology-really\/\">after reading on Questioning Transphobia about something that happened on Pam&#8217;s House Blend<\/a>, I wrote a whole, lengthy post trying to say what <a href=\"http:\/\/transgriot.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/cisgender-isnt-insult.html\">TransGriot says so succinctly here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cisgender is a neutral term that doesn&#8217;t have the negative accumulated baggage of being used to &#8216;other&#8217; or used as a rallying cry by the Forces of Intolerance to oppress someone&#8217;s human rights rights like trans has.<\/p>\n<p>There are no people being made the butt of societal jokes because they are cisgender. There&#8217;s no &#8216;cisgender panic defense&#8217;. There&#8217;s no one being denied a job because they are cisgender. There&#8217;s no one being killed because of folks hating on you for being cisgender. There&#8217;s no Cisgender Day Of Remembrance.<\/p>\n<p>I repeat, cisgender means your body and the gender identity housed between your ears is comfortably aligned, nothing more, nothing less.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks, TransGriot.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womanist-musings.com\/\">Womanist Musings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn. A while ago, after reading on Questioning Transphobia about something that happened on Pam&#8217;s House Blend, I wrote a whole, lengthy post trying to say what TransGriot says so succinctly here: Cisgender is a neutral term that doesn&#8217;t have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8222\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transsexual-and-transgender-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}