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 🇺🇦 (@cmclymer) October 30, 2023

Others were quick to join in.

You should learn what words mean before you tweet them to the entire world

— 🎃💀The Terror of Dublin💀🎃 (@taradublinrocks) October 31, 2023

Tweets like this make me think Elon was feeling lonely and needed to raise his dopamine levels…

— Frank Giugliano (@nyccookies) October 30, 2023

I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many community notes on a post before. pic.twitter.com/5AZtMLTtVK

— Justin Martin (@supertrucker) October 30, 2023

I wonder how this period will ever be remembered. Imagine 100 yrs from now they look at the videos of our educational system.

— floridanow1 (@floridanow1) October 30, 2023

They think "cis" is a slur because they use "trans" as a slur

— Ari Drennen (@AriDrennen) October 30, 2023

omg we‘re making up slurs now?? the word “musk” is a slur for ugly white men. shame on anyone who uses it. https://t.co/rZtfLmzTwN

— chris (@cinnamonboy0467) October 31, 2023

The word "elon" is a homosapien slur. Shame on anyone who uses it.

— Adriana, but spookier 🏳️‍⚧️ 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 (@NerdyTrans) October 31, 2023

Heterosexual is a straight person slur. Shame on anyone who uses it.

See how that works? No? It doesn't? That's cos it aint a slur. It's a descriptor.

Like the word cisgender.

Regards
A cisgender woman with no snowflake fucks to give https://t.co/cg2bXWOQXj

— Sam Connor (@criprights) October 30, 2023

This is not the first time Musk has declared cisgender to be a slur. In June, he wrote that “the contemptible creep that manufactured the term ‘cis’ has serious problems. Ignore him.” 

For the record, a cisgender woman coined the term in 1994.

Musk has amped up his public disdain of all things trans since his transgender daughter, who was 18 at the time, applied for a legal name change in 2022.

She cited the reason for the formal request as “gender identity and the fact that I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape, or form.”