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What does Cisgender mean?
I'm sorry if this sounds ignorant but I've been seeing the term ciswoman or cismen in a lot of conversations here and I don't understand what it generally means. I tried googling it but I couldnt understand the whole premise of the context.
Basically the opposite of transgender. Someone who identifies as their biologicallly assigned gender, sorry if this definition is confusing or incorrect I'm hella tired and unable to explain shit properly at the moment. 1 reply
I was born a girl, with a vagina and breasts. I have always identified as a girl and still do. So i'd be called a cis woman.
Same for a man, who identifies as the gender he was assigned at birth. He'd be a cis man.
Its like the opposite of transgender. reply
I think it's someone who's sex (what you are born as) matches their gender (what u identify as) for example I was born a female and I identify as an woman therefore i'm cisgender. reply
cis basically means that you identify with your natural born gender? if that makes sense!! So if you're biologically a women and you identify as a female you're a ciswoman. This was also very new to me so dw reply
Yup, sort of the opposite of transgender. Cis- as a prefix means to remain, or to stay on the same side as something. And cisgender means you agree with what the doctors said your gender is. There's a bunch of nuance between your sex and your gender, and this is simplistic in that it ignores a -great- many cultures who agree that there are more tha...... 1 reply