Wait a minute. Why are you using the word "heterosexual"?
You might not be aware of this, but heterosexual has a very similar history. Homosexual was a diagnosis of a disorder in human beings, it was a label created by straight scientists to (just like transsexual) label a group of people as Other and deviant/defective. The word "heterosexual" was created a half century later, by gay activists trying to level the playing field.
The problem with trying to play fair in a human rights game, is that the other side never is. The other side got a several-hundred year head-start; the fact that we make any progress at all is quite frankly miraculous. And at this point the game has been going on for so long, that a lot of the cheats used aren't even intentional; the other side just assumes that's how the game is played.
Without words like "heterosexual" or "cissexual/cisgender" what you have is a world of "homosexual and normal," "transsexual and normal." That's all these words are trying to rectify, because it's easier to add new words than it is to take words away from people.
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You might not be aware of this, but heterosexual has a very similar history. Homosexual was a diagnosis of a disorder in human beings, it was a label created by straight scientists to (just like transsexual) label a group of people as Other and deviant/defective. The word "heterosexual" was created a half century later, by gay activists trying to level the playing field.
The problem with trying to play fair in a human rights game, is that the other side never is. The other side got a several-hundred year head-start; the fact that we make any progress at all is quite frankly miraculous. And at this point the game has been going on for so long, that a lot of the cheats used aren't even intentional; the other side just assumes that's how the game is played.
Without words like "heterosexual" or "cissexual/cisgender" what you have is a world of "homosexual and normal," "transsexual and normal." That's all these words are trying to rectify, because it's easier to add new words than it is to take words away from people.