an inner-city dweller saying “die black scum”?

WTF? The inner-city dwellers who are black don’t count?

Looking at things a little more globally then: how many people would see the word ‘cis’ and more or less immediately understand it to apply to non-transgender people? Organic chemists, historians, and lexicographers would probably jump to alternate definition of cis first, before considering it to have an application to gender.

So I see this as speaking to people who are already knowledgeable of transgenderism and issues of violence = not the wider population at large. Even within the smaller LGBT activist world, ‘grues’ would have quite a bit further to go as an experiment in memetic engineering, before it would be readily known to mean ‘gender congruent people who also are scum by virtue of violently oppressing gender variant people’.

Go look up how much risk there is for atheists being murdered by Christians. Now how about that one in twelve risk for trans women being murdered by cis people. Or one in eight if you happen to be a trans woman of colour.

“Die Cis Scum” is a mirror. It reflects the risk, fear, hostility and hatred we live with ALL THE FUCKING TIME. It holds a mirror up to cis privilege, and SHOULD make you uncomfortable.

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As a side-note, I’m not sure I’m wholly comfortable with the “I’m not cis, but I’m not trans either” thing. If you’re not trans, you’re cis. That’s sort of the only thing cis really means. You don’t have to be 100% secure and consistent in your gender identity to be cis, you simply need to fit into basic cultural normativities and expectations of gender. And fitting them needn’t be completely perfect. I’m reminded of how when I explained the definition of transgender as an umbrella term to my dad, he said “so I’m transgender, then”. I said “what?!” and he said “I like to cook!”. Failing to fit PERFECTLY into an assigned gender role doesn’t make someone trans, nor does it mean they aren’t cis. And you absolutely live with cis privilege. I’m not saying that you don’t have a right to self-identify outside normative gender, I’m just saying that if you aren’t falling under the (broad) rubric of “trans”, you really don’t have much of a claim to shirk the term cis. At the end of the day, after all, “cis” isn’t about cis people are identified. It’s about how we frame the way trans people are identified, marked and ultimately targeted.

However I don’t know if that makes “die cis scum” more or less objectionable. All of the examples could be shown to be unique in some way. Example: able-bodied people made a point of systemically sterilizing people with disabilities for hundreds of years.

I mean it more globally.

That sentence I wrote might make a bit more sense with those extra words. Just to back up my assertion that “Die Trans Scum” is a real thing, where the other examples in the OP are somewhat more debatable (e.g. “Die Christian Scum” is definitely a real thing in parts of the Muslim world… not so much in the religiose US).

Violence against trans people sometimes dominates the statistics of all violence against LGBT people, far out of proportion to their demographic representation. For example, quoting the 2011 NCAVP report on Hate Violence against LGBTQH* communities in the US, page 19:

Transgender women represented 44% of anti-LGBTQH murders in 2010 but only represented 11% of the total reports. This finding reflects NCAVP’s 2009 finding that transgender women experience a disproportionate impact of anti-LGBTQH murder. Within LGBTQH communities, transgender people represent 8.6% of the general population. The overrepresentation of transgender people among survivors of violence and murder victims highlights the disparate impact that anti-LGBTQH violence, particularly murder, has on transgender women. This suggests that transgender people are at greater risk of being a target for violence than non-transgender lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and/or HIV-affected people, and that the violence faced by transgender people is more severe. Given that this data is in part based on media reports, it is unlikely that it represents an increase of reporting among transgender women and their families and friends. Instead these statistics indicate that that bias based on gender identity is pervasive in the United States.

The figure for 2009 was worse: eight fewer murders overall, but transgender women made up 50%.

* Q = Queer, H = HIV-affected community