What bothers me about it is the inverse of this, that we are trans if we're not cis. Which is something I'm acutely sensitive to.
You're right, in that it's useful to have such terms, and that the binary nature of them as language doesn't necessarily imply a binary reality.
So maybe it's not that I object to the language, so much as not having the emotional resilience and fortitude to enter into conversations on the topics that are being discussed when such language is used. Personally, I need such topics to be addressed with acute sensitivity, and that basically means only having such conversations with people I'm intimate with and who will be extremely careful with me regarding the language they use.
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Date: 2014-03-21 11:32 pm (UTC)What bothers me about it is the inverse of this, that we are trans if we're not cis. Which is something I'm acutely sensitive to.
You're right, in that it's useful to have such terms, and that the binary nature of them as language doesn't necessarily imply a binary reality.
So maybe it's not that I object to the language, so much as not having the emotional resilience and fortitude to enter into conversations on the topics that are being discussed when such language is used. Personally, I need such topics to be addressed with acute sensitivity, and that basically means only having such conversations with people I'm intimate with and who will be extremely careful with me regarding the language they use.