A self-explanatory term that is often used poorly by
people who are trying to be progressive.
People in this category include cisgender men, transgender women, and any nonbinary
people with that specific anatomy. There are very few good uses for this categorization outside of specific medical classifications. Descriptions of the social behavior of
people in this category tend to just focus on the behavior of men, and describing them in a way that includes transgender women is transphobic. This term is intended to be a more politically correct alternative to "male-bodied", but somehow manages to be just as bad of a description.
There is nothing wrong with using "men" or "cisgender men" or even "men and masculine
people" as an alternative to this term so as to not needlessly include trans women.
"I'm sick of how
people with penises
treat me on dates."
"But you only date men. Don't you mean that you're sick of how men
treat you on dates?"
"You're right, I'm sick of how men treat me on dates."