Forum:Cissexism =/= Transphobia, please allow us a separate article instead of a referral, thanks.

Hello, new here, want to note that transhobia and cissexism are not interchangeable and they are not the same thing, but alas it seems typing cissexism into your search box refers you to an article about transphobia with no proper analysis of cissexism. Cissexism is at least a unique form of transphobia that is worth mentioning. You ought to either afford a separate page for it or add a big section under transphobia specifically for it. For those of you who don't know you can look it up or I will try to summarize simply here: Cissexism as a concept helps us understand specifically the ways in which our lives are shaped by the assumption of cisgender lives, experiences and bodies as the default, and the belief that the only acceptable or legitimate forms of existing are cisgender ways. Cissexism results in transgender exclusion and erasure because we are simply left unaccounted for and othered. It's important to talk about this. Also many articles on this website, in particular those which use terms like male and female flagrantly seem to be inherently assuming cisnormative chromosomes / hormonal development (a flawed cisgender centric culturally based viewpoint which is pervading science and erasing sex deviance / disorders) and are sometimes vaguely, implicitly or explicitly cissexist which explains the lack of space given to this concept on the site as of right now. Hard to criticize this crap when so much of the activism and science articles on your site are built on cissexist assumptions / discourse. Take responsibility for the cis privilege behind some of your articles which erase, delegitimize or "other" trans people through exclusion and assumption of cis defaults. Stay skeptical of science which makes unfounded cultural assumptions about sex and gender, say no to science which assumes people everyone is cis and chromosonally "normal", say no to "is it a boy or a girl?"-esque nonsense in your articles please. That is, if you're more than talk when it comes to being rational. &mdash; Unsigned, by: ‎Transgendurr / talk / contribs
 * Smart post, and a point taken. A (possibly only marginally related, but bear me out, if you would...) question: For people who've read the oeuvre of Judith Butler and Gayle Rubin, this post is a good launching-pad for discussion. For those who have not, this post attempts to address an unbelievably complex concept, one that asks us to interrogate perhaps the most deeply-engrained idea in human experience, that there are men and women, divided in a strict binary (the rare medicalized condition aside) using a bunch of very specialized language. I've never seen the Caitlyn (sp?) Jenner (I typed "Caitlyn Gender..." true story) show, but I wonder if that doesn't do a better job at reaching out to say, my never-graduated-from-high-school mom re: the myth of the gender binary than does burying everything in Lacaninan/Butlerian/Foucauldian word salad. Thoughts? Peace. TL/DR: Preaching to the choir, maybe?  AgingHippie (talk) 08:06, 5 November 2015 (UTC)