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had to google what cis is: > A cisgender person (sometimes cissexual, informally abbreviated cis) is one whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at bi
by baby 6y ago
had to google what cis is:
> A cisgender person (sometimes cissexual, informally abbreviated cis) is one whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth. For example, someone who identifies as a woman and was identified as female at birth is a cisgender woman. The word cisgender is the antonym of transgender.
- throwitaway12 6y agoThanks, would have never known something so bizarre.
- CharlesW 6y agoThat comment might make sense a decade ago (when it was mostly relegated to academic journals)[1], but it's been in common use (at least in the U.S.) for years.[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender [2] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=cisgender https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=cisgende...
- booleandilemma 6y agoI never really saw the point of this term, to be honest. To me it just feels like a sly way to normalize being abnormal. Imagine if we had specific terms for someone who doesn't shoplift, or who doesn't eat other people's pets.
- objectivetruth 6y agoWell, we have a term for people that compare trans people to criminals - or worse - like you just did: it's "transphobe." The word "bigot" works just as well, it's just not as precise. Amazing what passes for "discourse" on this site.
- Phelinofist 6y agoI thought it meant "Commonwealth of Independent States", the CIS region