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I can't think of a time I've ever heard "cis" or "cisgender" outside of the internet. If you have a bunch of trans friends, as I do, you hear it more often. If I understand the meaning right it's like being one of the Italian mobsters in the movie Shaft . Well I have no idea wha...

About the only thing you can say honestly about that situation is "we don't know everything". In fact, we know very little.

Meadmaker wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:01 am I can't think of a time I've ever heard "cis" or "cisgender" outside of the internet.

If you have a bunch of trans friends, as I do, you hear it more often.

Yep, I was bullied extensively at school - rarely physically, though that did happen, but verbally and psychologically. It made me into a human that was scared to put his head up because of the fear that if I did, words of abuse would follow, or occasionally a small rock. I did band and theatre, whe...

stanky wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 2:01 pm I've never heard anyone use either term.
(But i don't get out much)

Yeah, if you haven't heard about the Right's war on Woke by now, how's life in that cave deep in the woods?

Sorry, but as a bullied kid myself, I am particularly sensitive to the reasons kids bully other kids. In the most progressive capital city in Australia, a kid wearing a cat-ear headband probably wouldn't be bullied - in fact they might be seen as pretty cool. But in conservative middle America, &quo...

Hardly surprising. Yes, "cis" is being used as a slur, like "woke" has become.

Okay, that's a fair answer. I was just wondering if you had some kind of axe to grind with regards to furries, but if it's just truth you're after and you would have been just as concerned if the story were about kids smoking, that's pretty reasonable, in my opinion.

Why do you care?

Reminds me of bushfires.

If you know that there's a bushfire in your area, get the hell out. You can think you're perfectly safe and then a wall of flame suddenly appears.