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[[File:Cisgender.jpg|thumb|220x220px|The cisgender flag by FlagsforCisHets.]] |
[[File:Cisgender.jpg|thumb|220x220px|The cisgender flag by FlagsforCisHets.]] |
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[[File:Cisgender flag .png|thumb|Five striped version by Idrisney29]] |
[[File:Cisgender flag .png|thumb|Five striped version by Idrisney29]] |
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[[File:Cis-man*.png|thumb|The Cis-men flag by Idrisney]] |
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'''Cisgender''' (often shortened to '''cis''') is the opposite of [[transgender]] or [[Cisn't|cisn’t]], meaning someone who always identifies wholly and exclusively as the [[gender]] they were [[Assigned Gender|assigned]] at birth. The term is not an identity by itself, rather it is a term used primarily by the transgender community as a way to describe those who are not trans. It describes [[Man|men]] who were [[AMAB|assigned male at birth]] and [[Woman|women]] who were [[AFAB|assigned female at birth]], which still go by these terms. Some [[intersex]] people who are [[Non-Binary|non-binary]] may think of themselves as cisgender. |
'''Cisgender''' (often shortened to '''cis''') is the opposite of [[transgender]] or [[Cisn't|cisn’t]], meaning someone who always identifies wholly and exclusively as the [[gender]] they were [[Assigned Gender|assigned]] at birth. The term is not an identity by itself, rather it is a term used primarily by the transgender community as a way to describe those who are not trans. It describes [[Man|men]] who were [[AMAB|assigned male at birth]] and [[Woman|women]] who were [[AFAB|assigned female at birth]], which still go by these terms. Some [[intersex]] people who are [[Non-Binary|non-binary]] may think of themselves as cisgender. |
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== Etymology == |
== Etymology == |
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[[File:Cis-women.png|thumb|The Cis-women flag by Idrisney]] |
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"Cis" comes from the Latin prefix meaning "on the same side", as in the cis-trans distinction in chemistry. The origin of the term in reference to gender is credited to Carl Buijs who proposed the term in 1995<ref>http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/tg_def.html#cisgender</ref>, and although the word had been used on the internet before 1995, Carl Buijs is the first recorded source to define the term. It's possible that the term was independently coined elsewhere. |
"Cis" comes from the Latin prefix meaning "on the same side", as in the cis-trans distinction in chemistry. The origin of the term in reference to gender is credited to Carl Buijs who proposed the term in 1995<ref>http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/tg_def.html#cisgender</ref>, and although the word had been used on the internet before 1995, Carl Buijs is the first recorded source to define the term. It's possible that the term was independently coined elsewhere. |
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