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> As someone who is CIS I often wonder where this misconception originated: why do people think that "cis" is an acronym? What do they think it stands for? It'
by lovegoblin 5y ago
> As someone who is CIS
I often wonder where this misconception originated: why do people think that "cis" is an acronym? What do they think it stands for? It's just a prefix; the antonym of "trans."
- delecti 5y agoI've seen people mistakenly assert the backronym "comfortable in skin". I'm not sure why else it would be so common.
- CRConrad 5y agoYou see it with "the FED" too. I think it's an American thing; maybe the Yanks have so many TLAs that they automatically assume anything TL is an A. (And don't get me started on "Oh-bee-gee-why-en", often capitalised as "OB-GYN" in writing... Sheesh, what an idiotic spelling of "gynecologist"!)