John Boyne responds to comments that he is 'a cis man speaking from a position of cis privilege'

In the article, the Irish author wrote: “I don’t consider myself a cis man; I consider myself a man.”

John Boyne has responded to a comment that he was speaking from "a position of cis privilege" when he wrote about not wanting to refer to himself as a cis man.

Cis refers to a person's gender identity matching the sex which they were assigned at birth.