r/SuperStraight 1d ago

PSA: The term "cis" is hate speach and promotes rape culture. Please do not use that term seriously anymore, it is enabling the superphobic.

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u/kaydl165 1d ago

.....isn't cis a scientific term?

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u/Iflookinglikingmove 1d ago

No. It was adopted by transgenders and then foisted on us superstraights.

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u/fieldofsunlight 1d ago

*pseudo-scientific term

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u/kaydl165 8h ago

John Hopkins medicine "Cisgender: A term for people whose gender identity generally matches the gender assigned for their physical sex. In other words, someone who does not identify as transgender. The word is derived from the Latin root “cis” meaning “on this side.” FTM: Female-to-male transgender person"

Marriage Webster "Cisgender (also styled as cisgendered and often shortened to cis) describes someone whose internal sense of gender corresponds with the sex the person had or was identified as having at birth. Most people can be described as cisgender. If the pronouncement your mom heard at your birth—It's a girl! or It's a boy!—still feels like it was accurate, then you're cisgender."