What to do if someone calls you "cisgender"

Or asks for your pronouns, or whatever

Elon Musk says that the word “cisgender” will henceforth be considered a slur on Twitter and that people who use it may be subject to summary banning. That feels like a bit of performance art from a man who is exceptionally good at that sort of thing, but oh well. “Cisgender,” in case you weren’t aware, is the word that LGBT activists use to refer to normal people, i.e., people who aren’t suffering from the delusion that they are a member of the opposite sex. Apparently we needed a word to describe people who aren’t under the grip of that particular mania, and “cisgender” is it. I’m not trying to be cruel here, that’s just how it is.

The chief purpose of this linguistic device is to recruit normal people, however obliquely, into the ranks of transgenderism. If you can be described as “cisgender,” then you can be used to legitimize gender ideology in turn, for cisgenderism, if it is a real thing, would exist on the same socio-sexual continuum as transgenderism, with the former thereby validating the latter by dint of merely existing.

“Cisgenderism,” of course, is not real. It’s not a thing. It’s just a concept made up to try and validate a mental illness. It is no more complicated than that. Imagine if you meant someone who sincerely believed he himself was a scaly lizard person and who subsequently dubbed you a “smoothskin.” Is that what you are now—a smoothskin? Do you have to identify yourself as that? No, you’re just a person, same as you ever were. Someone else’s crippling illness doesn’t change the basic reality of you, yourself.

So if someone calls you “cisgender,” you shouldn’t be afraid to disagree, sharply, with it. If someone introduces you as cisgender, or tells you you’re cisgender, or asks you if you’re cisgender, you can and should respond politely with something along the lines with:

Oh, I really don’t do that sort of thing. Those are made-up ideas and I just don’t participate in them. Sorry.

It’s really no more or less simple than that. Just politely refuse to participate. You can do the same thing if someone asks you “your pronouns.” Just decline. “Oh, I don’t do the whole choose-your-pronouns thing. I think it was made up by hard-left activists. Sorry.” Maybe you’ll get pushback from this and maybe you won’t. If so then all you have to do is keep up the polite refusal: A shrug, a smile, “Sorry.”

Above all, don’t participate. The whole charade is a delusion and should be politely treated as such. Work as hard as you can to end this awful zeitgeist, and liberate yourself from caring what other people think about you as you do it. You’ll be fine.