Elon Musk brutally mocked for saying “cis” is a “heterosexual slur”

X users are having a field day with Elon Musk’s inability to be effectively hateful with his failure to discern between gender and sexual identity.

On Monday, seemingly in reaction to nothing, Musk posted that “The word ‘cis’ is a heterosexual slur” and “shame on anyone who uses it.”

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“This s**t is not a game.”

Cisgender simply means that someone identifies as the sex they were assigned at birth, so not only is it not a slur, but it also has nothing to do with sexuality. Homosexual and heterosexual people identify as cisgender.

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Many on the platform were quick to point that out, including trans activist Charlotte Clymer, who wrote, “‘Cis’ refers to gender identity, not sexual orientation, which means it’s entirely unrelated to whether or not someone is heterosexual. So, even your attempt to falsely frame it as a slur is a few degrees removed from logic.”

"Cis" refers to gender identity, not sexual orientation, which means it's entirely unrelated to whether or not someone is heterosexual. So, even your attempt to falsely frame it as a slur is a few degrees removed from logic.

— Charlotte Clymer