[Magdalen] cisgender???

[Charles Wohlers]

I assume they all derive from the Latin. I would doubt very much that cis 
and trans in the chemical sense go back more than 150 years.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com


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Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 3:22 PM
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Subject: Re: [Magdalen] cisgender???

Isn't the chemical meaning the source?

Jim Handsfield
Sent from my iPhone

> On Jun 14, 2016, at 2:53 PM, Charles Wohlers <charles.wohlers at verizon.net> 
> wrote:
>
> 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.