Trans 101

[nyecamden]

CisgenderedCisgendered means that a person has the same gender as an adult as they were thought to have as a baby/child. It means that they are not trans. The majority of the people reading this blog are cisgendered. Cisgendered is a new word, and isn't used very much outside of the trans/femminist/gender theoretical(?) communities, but it is a

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[farnam]

Funny enough I googled this word just the other evening, I had found myslef using it in conversation with an intuitive understanding based on the way others had used it, without being totallly sure. Led to an interesting hour of investigoogilation which could be sumed up by exactly what you just said.

I've also often used the term neuro-normie to describe people who don't blip in any way on the dyslexia/dyspraxia/aspergers syndrome spectum, and I've often noticed that said neuro-normies generally hate the term. Its a less formal, more conversational form of the neurotypical mentioned above, and a form I've come accross far more often on the net. I justify its use, despite accepting/acknowledging the fact that many to whom it applies hate the term. However, if normal is always SO normal that it cannot even be named or labled in any way, then no progress can ever be made in terms of challenging the issues it creates. Or in other words if the hegemonic/normative cannot even be refered to as a part of speach without resourting to a paragraph-length discription of what it is NOT, then how in heck can it ever be challenged?

[numberland]

That's a bizzare term and one I haven't heard before. What advantage does it have over neuro-typical. It also sounds like a name-calling name to me which is irritating. Hmm.

[numberland]

Fair enough. It feels odd I think because it comes closer to saying normal people then hetronormative and possibly for irrational reasons reminds me of words like retard and aspie (when this was used as a name calling/derogatory word).

[nyecamden]

I've heard words like cisgendered/heteronormative justified as being words that should be used (despite them being new and clunky) because we use a lot of words that started off being from the elite/marganilised, and are now in common usage. I *think* homosexual is a word that fits that description.

I'm not sure if I'm understanding your big second paragraph properly. If I've responded to what you *didn't* say, please tell me!

[snakey]

Heterosexual is certainly a word that fits that description...