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

Comments

[artremis]

it's a useful word.
At first i baulked at it a bit because "people are not molecules" and like faerierhona i find the sound of it unpleasant/uncomfortable. But then i think about how useful it is for me as a spectrum person to be able to have the word "nuerotypical" to describe the more privileged majority ...

I'm slightly worried who many obviously intelligent people don't have the basic science education for the cis/trans thing to make immediate sense to them!

[nyecamden]

Sure. Maybe there isn't a way to guarantee to avoid offending trans people then? Look a few entries down in my journal if you want to read a flamewar. *headache*

Edited to add: Oh, and I don't like 'cissexual' because I imagine myself stuttering on it even when I'm just typing it. I could probably get over that though ;-)

[lockedindream]

I was actually relieved when I first heard the term cisgendered because it gave me a non-othering way to describe myself.

I don't get why some people dislike the term.

[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

[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).

[aster13]

The word cisgendered seems like a perfectly sensible neologism to me.
I don't mind being called it.
It's a bit of an arse the meaning needs explaining to ppl, but eh, such is life.

[damerell]

[aster13]

Ye-ess, it is annoying that J Random has no idea what it means - but if transppl find it distressing that it is implied that they are abnormal, then i'd sooner be explaining it.