[Magdalen] cisgender???

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Logical. An answer to a question I didn't know how to really put into words. 
Thanks!
Lynn

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When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "Brian Reid" <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 1:46 AM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] cisgender???

> 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.
>