[Magdalen] cisgender???

[Charles Wohlers]

Well, it's completely clear to me. Glad someone was paying attention in 
chemistry class.   ;-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cis%E2%80%93trans_isomerism
They're two different compounds (cis & trans isomers) because you can't 
rotate about a carbon-carbon double bond and so you can't transform a cis 
isomer into a trans isomer except through a chemical reaction.

And, chemists pronounce it "siss". And so it shall be.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Molly Wolf
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 2:37 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] cisgender???

I understand it from organic chemistry, as in trans fat.  It has to do with 
same-side (cis) or opposite side (trans).  Think next-door or kitty-corner.

Clear as mud, right? (But Chad will get it.)

Molly

Molly

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no 
other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Jun 14, 2016, at 1:32 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My Latin teachers, now conjugating in heaven, would have pronounced this
> word "kiss." I understand the church Latin people have prevailed, however,
> so it's probably pronounced "siss" or something.
> -M
>
>
>> On Tuesday, June 14, 2016, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> If you spoke Latin (!)
>> it's the opposite of trans.
>>
>>