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03-14-2008, 12:21 AM | Topic Starter |
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Cisgendered?
What on earth does "cisgendered" mean?
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03-14-2008, 12:31 AM | #2 | ||
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"The word has its origin in the Latin-derived prefix cis, meaning "on the same side" as in the cis-trans distinction in chemistry. In this case, "cis" (on the same side) refers to the unity of a gender identity with a biological gender assignment.
[edit]Internet use The word cisgender has been used on the internet since at least 1994, when it appeared in the alt.transgendered usenet group in a post by Dana Leland Defosse.[2] Defosse does not define the term and seems to assume that readers are already familiar with it. Coinage has been attributed to Carl Buijs, a transsexual man from the Netherlands, in a number of internet publications.[3][4] which suggest that he proposed the term in 1995. It may have been independently coined -- in April of 1996, Buijs said in a usenet posting "As for the origin; I just made it up".[5]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender "Futher, Academic use The term has more recently been used in scholarly publications, such as a 2006 article in the Journal of Lesbian Studies[6] and Julia Serano's 2007 publication Whipping Girl.[7] Serano also uses the related terms cissexual, which she defines as "people who are not transsexual and who have only ever experienced their subconscious and physical sexes as being aligned." I do believe I need another beverage...
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It's a fancy word for "bitch man who dress like woman".
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03-14-2008, 09:07 AM | #5 |
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03-14-2008, 09:23 AM | #7 |
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Rausch went to the trouble of droppin' some knowledge and you guys just refuse to read it.
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03-14-2008, 09:37 AM | #8 |
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It's the opposite of brogendered.
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03-14-2008, 09:39 AM | #9 |
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Not to be confused with brosexuals.
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03-14-2008, 01:47 PM | #10 |
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So... it's the opposite of transgendered?
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03-14-2008, 02:46 PM | #11 |
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OMG. Does this mean that *I'm* cisgendered! I hope my parents never find out.
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03-14-2008, 02:55 PM | #12 |
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It's just an odd word, to me.
I was talking to a woman I know and she referred to herself as cisgendered. I'm like WTF -- all I know is that when -gendered is used as a suffix, it can be weird. |
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I always thought it was weird that William F. Buckley Jr. used so many words that most of his readers would have to look up in a dictionary to understand. I never really understood it, but there's probably an obscure word for it.
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03-14-2008, 03:13 PM | #14 |
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Turgidity?
Prolixity? |
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I would say that the former is probably closer. I had to look both of those words up to make sure. I've never heard prolixity before.
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