I’d rather have a more honed argument than what I provided. I hate the arrogance and presumptiveness and bubble-world aspects of “don’t say ‘cis’ because normal is just normalgrillman style arguments so I’m seeing red here.

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    8 days ago

    If you really want to help them though you should understand that, for the people making this argument, probably 99.99% of people in their lives are cis. If 99.99% of travel was done by car, then yes it would be the “normal” way of travel and there’d be no need to distinguish.

    Maybe a better example would be EVs? We’ve never needed to specify an “ICE” car before because they’ve had dominance. Now though, EVs are becoming more common and all of a sudden what used to be just a “car” is an ICE car. It was always an ICE car but there was never a need to say it because nobody ever had EVs. Well, not anymore! And same for gender.