“Do not call me cisgender!” Republican congresswoman flips out...

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

"Do not call me cisgender!" Republican congresswoman flips out over non-trans term

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/02/quick-hit-do-not-call-me-cisgender-republican-congresswoman-flips-out-over-non-trans-term/ 🔗

Daniel Villarreal (9 Feb 2026)

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 that means nothing," Hageman said, according to PinkNews, not realizing that all words are literally made up by people to describe the world around them. "Do not call me cisgender. I am a woman," the cisgender legislator added.

She said the word "epitomizes the left's ongoing effort to rewrite the English language in order to change the debate and destroy civil order."

In reality, the term was popularized in the 1990s by internet users discussing trans issues. The Oxford English Dictionary added cisgender to its list of words in 2015, defining the term as "designating a person whose sense of personal identity corresponds to the sex and gender assigned to him or her at birth (in contrast with transgender)."

Transphobes, like Hageman and billionaire white supremacist Elon Musk, have increasingly insisted that cisgender is a "slur" meant to attack non-trans people. It is not.

[Allie Jayne]

Yes, let's leave the terms cis woman and trans woman to scientific classification, and accept we are all just Women!

Hugs,

Allie