Although you may disagree with arguments to abandon a “nosomorphic view” or with notions that regard transsexualism as a “minority which has been pathologized” you may hold a distinctly difficult position to support. “Cisgender” refers to people whose experiences of their own gender agree with the sex they were assigned at birth.” Neosexuals on the other hand are nosomorphs.
The word “cisgender” is the product of the same academic nonsense factory that allowed physicist Alan Sokal to sucker the journal “Social Text” into publishing a paper entitled “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.”
In the paper, Sokal facetiously argued that gravity is socially-constructed. Never mind it’s an idea readily debunked by jumping off your roof.
Sokal noted that the editors at “Social Text,” “apparently felt no need to analyze the quality of the evidence, the cogency of the arguments, or even the relevance of the arguments.”
We could say the same things about those who separate “gender” from biological reality. But this bit of nonsense is, it seems, making its way into the mainstream.
For instance, the word “cisgender” is recognized by Microsoft Word.
Now, virtually no one reads academic journals, but most do use spell-checkers, and if these tell us that “cisgender” is a word, then the idea becomes just a little more real.
“Cisgender” doesn’t have to become common usage to have an impact. All that’s required is for enough outlets and opinion elites to adopt the term in order to raise doubts in our minds about the relationship of “gender” to biology. If enough people doubt that their own experience is normative, then the neologism will have succeeded in its task.
This is how language works in political and cultural discourse and accepts the term cisgender instead of the more normal words for make and female. Confused? It’s about normal being added to LGBTQNCN where the first “N” is for Nosomorphic or Neomorphic and the second is for “Normal”. For those who would argue that there’s no need for the term cisgendered people there are few who would disagree hence the use of a purposeful void. We must stop with LGBTQ.
Ask yourself to explain Chaz Bono, F to M and Caitlyn Jenner M to F.
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