Could someone explain this? I've only ever heard "cisgender" not "cissexual" and I was taught "transgender" as an umbrella term that included "transsexual" and "genderqueer" (though I always though trans* should e categories of genderqueer).
As to the last one... mm yeah I'm probably one of those. I asked a friend who's trans "what does 'feel like a girl' mean? I mean, I was born one, but I don't understand how it could be a way to feel...it's just a label that was assigned." Didn't get a satisfactory explanation. It seems like you have to buy into the idea that there are two rigidly distinct genders for cisgender identities to work, but if you spend enough time with people outside the gender binary...
I used to say I was a genderless pan-romantic asexual. Now I just don't bother. The silly part is that I'm sort of being more "femme" now, though that's pretty much just because my sex is so underrepresented in my field, I'd like to make us slightly more visible ;)
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As to the last one... mm yeah I'm probably one of those. I asked a friend who's trans "what does 'feel like a girl' mean? I mean, I was born one, but I don't understand how it could be a way to feel...it's just a label that was assigned." Didn't get a satisfactory explanation. It seems like you have to buy into the idea that there are two rigidly distinct genders for cisgender identities to work, but if you spend enough time with people outside the gender binary...
I used to say I was a genderless pan-romantic asexual. Now I just don't bother. The silly part is that I'm sort of being more "femme" now, though that's pretty much just because my sex is so underrepresented in my field, I'd like to make us slightly more visible ;)