What's Up with "Cisgender"?

[@savvyallyaction]

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[@mikesun421]

Wonderful video! Thank you for the content and how clear and easy you explain things. Much appreciated!!

[@kidkarbon4775]

Terrible discriminatory video... So basically your either on the side of 'the sex assigned at birth' or 'trans' which totally ignores the existence of intersex people who do not fit CIS genders definition of 'sex assigned at birth' and are not trans.

[@stefanbaer7794]

Shared (or otherwise made known) with my work colleagues :) Great job!

[@jeanniegainsburg9219]

Thanks Stefan!

[@kathymejia-molina3686]

This was a great video. It makes sense now that the community has grown much bigger than before. Plus so we can all understand the difference of someone’s gender/sexuality. Like for most people out there being cisgender for gay, lesbian, heterosexual or bisexual. If they want to include themselves being cisgender or not by changing their gender to be transgender or non-binary. We’re all different who we are as a person ^-^

[@kevinparchen2327]

I wonder if the word "heterosexual" should be avoided, since it draws too much attention to the fact that some people are homosexual. I believe the correct terms are "straight" and "gay."

[@savvyallyaction]

Interestingly, word "straight" also has a negative connotation . It's the opposite of "bent," a derogatory term for gay. I'd actually like to see a completely new word created!

[@bethpowner4000]

What a great explanation, thank you!

[@USArmyCounterIntel]

We already have a name for these tho, it’s called male or female. Why does cis need to be added.

[@eepyaugust]

to describe something

[@kukinoris8941]

Right like they want to give another term for being your real assigned gender. Like leave us out if it please. I want nothing to do with it. I prefer living in a world where male and female was just that. We are not evolving we are devolving.

[@eepyaugust]

@@kukinoris8941 how is that a bad thing?

[@kidkarbon4775]

@@eepyaugust A person born with an intersex body who has a non-binary sense of gender identity that "matches" their body, they are both cisgender and gender non-conforming, presumably opposites according to cisgender's definition, and that this evidences the term's basis on a binary sex model that does not account for intersex people's existence. The fact that the term "sex assigned at birth" is used in one of cisgender's definitions without noting that babies are assigned male or female regardless of intersex status in most of the world, stating that doing so obfuscates the birth of intersex babies and frames gender identity within a binary male/female sex model that fails to account for both the existence of natally congruent gender non-conforming gender identities. Use of the term CIS exhibits a lack of compassion and a willingness to discriminate and show prejudice towards intersex people and that's why it's a bad thing.

[@eepyaugust]

@@kidkarbon4775 im not reading all that

[@kukinoris8941]

Before 2013 I was a considered a WOMAN. Im not cis. I don't care what Latin or the dictionary has to say. I am a WOMAN. What other people call themselves is none of my business.

[@eepyaugust]

You’re trans?

[@CoryTrevor13]

No understanding just confusion?

[@davidpar2]

It’s not hard to imagine only having the word gay and not straight. “Straight” refers to default normalcy, i.e. man + woman, which doesn’t need qualification; “gay” refers to deviation(s) from that.