I'm not about to, no. I'm sure when and if i ever go that route i will write a lot of angst here about it.
The word "cisgender" was first used during the mid-90's (by someone who was not herself transgender, or so i recall reading somewhere) to mean, basically, not transgender. The idea is to make it possible to talk about people's gender identity in a way that doesn't focus only on transpeople as the "marked" or "modified" or "deficient" class and everyone else (the cisgender population) as normal.
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Date: 2008-06-09 08:07 pm (UTC)The word "cisgender" was first used during the mid-90's (by someone who was not herself transgender, or so i recall reading somewhere) to mean, basically, not transgender. The idea is to make it possible to talk about people's gender identity in a way that doesn't focus only on transpeople as the "marked" or "modified" or "deficient" class and everyone else (the cisgender population) as normal.