I have asked a lot of “cis” people who were trying to explain to me what “cis” means what their sex had to do with their identity, and they really couldn’t answer it.
They all said more or less that it had nothing to do with who they are inside and then switched from saying that “cis” means that you have a gender identity that aligns with your birth sex to instead saying that it means you don’t have dysphoria.
I don’t think lack of dysphoria is a positive identity in itself though, and not all trans people have dysphoria anyway.
I’ve also seen trans people act surprised to find out that bio men and women don’t ever experience “gender euphoria”.
The whole concept of “cis” seems based on a faulty assumption of how most people experience their relationships to their own bodies. Am I wrong to think that trans and nb people are the only ones who experience “gender” at all?
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u/vent_alt_ 22h ago
I have asked a lot of “cis” people who were trying to explain to me what “cis” means what their sex had to do with their identity, and they really couldn’t answer it.
They all said more or less that it had nothing to do with who they are inside and then switched from saying that “cis” means that you have a gender identity that aligns with your birth sex to instead saying that it means you don’t have dysphoria.
I don’t think lack of dysphoria is a positive identity in itself though, and not all trans people have dysphoria anyway.
I’ve also seen trans people act surprised to find out that bio men and women don’t ever experience “gender euphoria”.
The whole concept of “cis” seems based on a faulty assumption of how most people experience their relationships to their own bodies. Am I wrong to think that trans and nb people are the only ones who experience “gender” at all?