[Magdalen] cisgender???

Grace Cangialosi gracecan at gmail.com
Wed Jun 15 16:04:29 UTC 2016


Thanks, Brian. Yes, that's a good rationale; I always shy away from using the word "normal" when comparing any human traits. 

> On Jun 15, 2016, at 2:46 AM, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:
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> If you are going to have a word like "transgender" then unless you have an equivalent word such as "cisgender" you will have to talk about "transgender or normal?" or "transgender or not?". Since the word "transgender" is well known, and cis/trans is a well-known Latin pair (used, for example, in chemistry), using the "cis" prefix allows an emotionally neutral balance word.
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