[Magdalen] cisgender???

[Charles Wohlers]

They're also common terms in chemistry. Ever heard of trans fats? It's how 
things arranged around a carbon-carbon double bond. Trans (the bad 
artificial ones) are on opposite sides; cis (they occur naturally) are on 
the same side. Chemists pronounce cis "siss". See 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_fat.


Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: ME Michaud
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 1:38 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] cisgender???

Trans is across, over there (translate, transatlantic, transparent,
transmogrify)

Cis is NOT over there, but here. On this side.0
cistern? words fail, actually.

On Tuesday, June 14, 2016, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok, it's the opposite of trans, but what is that in English?
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 12:56 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > If you spoke Latin (!)
> > it's the opposite of trans.
> >
> > Not a term I'm comfortable with yet, but then I'm not a Latin speaker.
> > -M
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, June 14, 2016, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > > Okay, someone here will know the answer to this. I know that this term
> > > refers to folks who don't fall into any of the LGBTQ categories, but
> what
> > > on earth does cis stand for, and where did it come from?  I've only
> > started
> > > seeing it since all the restroom controversy...
> > >
> > > --
> > > Grace Cangialosi
> > > Ruckersville, VA
> > >
> > > *“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us
> > > guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” - Dietrich
> > > Bonhoeffer*
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Grace Cangialosi
> Ruckersville, VA
>
> *“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us
> guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” - Dietrich
> Bonhoeffer*
>