Twitter's chief executive officer Elon Musk raised eyebrows this week when he declared that a gender identity term is now no longer welcome on the platform. The billionaire, who is also the CEO of ...

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Posting the term, which is used by many health organizations, on X’s mobile app now comes with a warning prompting users to delete the post. Elon Musk warned us this was coming. Now, the owner of X ...

Twitter’s executive chair Elon Musk said late Tuesday the words “cisgender” and “cis” are considered “slurs” under the social media platform’s content policy, the latest ad-hoc policy change ...

Being cisgender isn’t the same thing as being straight, but they can overlap. People can be both cisgender and straight, or they might be neither. “Cisgender” is a word used to describe gender ...

It’s been almost 30 years since the old Latin prefix “cis” broke free from dusty library shelves and academic message boards and struck a blow for gender equality. “Cisgender” is now a powerful ...

Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of Twitter, has amped up his anti-transgender campaign and has rejected the use of specific terms on the platform that are important to transgender people. One Twitter ...

Elon Musk is saying that the words “cis” and “cisgender” are considered “slurs” on Twitter. The owner of the social media platform made the statement after a user said he was allegedly targeted by a ...

Broadly speaking, cishet is a term used to describe someone who is both cisgender and heterosexual, says Rae D’Agnillo (they/them), a leader in various LGBTQ+ organizations. If someone is cishet, it ...

Wyoming Republican Rep. Harriet Hageman, in a Tuesday House meeting last week, admitted she believes “cisgender” is a “made-up word” that seeks to “destroy civil order.” “Cisgender is a made-up word ...