From here:
Celebrating Pentecost with Pride
Pentecost will be celebrated on Sunday, May 31, but the season of Pentecost will continue for the next several months.
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One could easily say that the Holy Spirit came down upon the people at the Stonewall Inn, lighting a fire within them to advocate for change. Still today, we see many examples of homophobia, transphobia, heterosexism and cissexism running rampant within the world and our society. This time of quarantine and isolation has empowered certain people to speak out against inclusive sex education, to call for the repeal of laws that protect against discrimination on the basis of gender or sexual orientation, and claim that gender-confirmation surgery and other transition-related procedures for trans* people “should be outlawed altogether”. People are being empowered through social media to commit “Zoom-bombing” and other acts of hate crime with little repercussion.
I only have a few questions: what is the asterisk for in “trans* people”? Is it a wildcard? What is cissexism and would I break out in a rash if I had it?
If your curiosity is piqued enough to want to see what a Pride Pentecost looks like and you are not worried that it might trigger your phobias, you can view it here.
“Cissexism” is a vogue term based like so many on bad Latin. For decades I have lived in a cis (this side of)-Atlantic home, meaning one on this side of the Pond as opposed to a trans (across)-Atlantic one, meaning one on the other side of that same Pond. From time to time I have made trans-Atlantic journeys. In that case “trans” is used of movement not location.
In the messy world of Latin prefixes imperfectly known, “cis” becomes the opposite of “trans”. So a “CISsexist” is one who believes snobbishly that there are two sexes and that one is of one or the other, there is no TRANSition. In other words has eyes in his/her head and brains between his/her ears. Snobbish and prejudiced enough to suppose sex is determined at conception, and that one who has begotten children cannot become a woman, or one who has menstruated, conceived, carried and fed children cannot become a man.