So, I hear trans people recently invented this whole cis/trans thing…
Using the cis- and trans- taxonomy to reference gender behavior was used as early as 1914. The transgender community didn’t invent its use, nor is its current […]
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
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- Transadvocate.com840
- Cristan’s Research83
- The TERFs52
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- Healthcare and medicine197
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Available scholarly citations plus verified non-scholarly sourcesA trans advocate’s perspective on Trans 101 questions
Cis is short for cisgender. The cis- prefix is Latin for “on the same side [as].” The trans- prefix is Latin for “on the other side [as].” In other words, cisgender is a term that generally describes non-transgender people and transgender is a term for describing non-cisgender people. In the…
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Short for cisgender. Cis is Latin for “on the same side [as].” In other words, it’s a term describing non-transgender people. In the same way, one might say transwomen one can say ciswomen. Cisgender means “denoting or relating to someone whose sense of personal identity corresponds with the gender assigned…
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