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Sayoria posted...

I think it's just a bad term. So the opposite of transportation would be cisportation? ... So if I was sitting in a restaurant, I would be using cisportation?... Nah, I am simply not using transportation at that time. What about trans fats. Does this mean that all the good fat is cis fat? ....


I mean, if cis is the opposite of trans and it was to be applied wherever you were looking for an opposite of "trans", it just seems stupid. Saying one thing is simply "not transgender", "not trans fat" and "not transportation" seems more logical.

Well, "transportation" likely doesn't have the same language origin as the word "transgender." Honestly, that's the most moronic, slippery slope argument I've ever heard. You are aware that there are cis fats, right? And that the prefix has to do with its structure. I wish I could tell you more, but it's been at least six years since I took a chemistry class.

"Not transgender" sounds more negative than "cisgender" to me. "Not x" sounds inherently negative in this context, honestly. It sounds like, "No, I'm not transgender, I'm normal." Cisgender isn't "normal"; it's just the opposite of transgender.

If you don't want to use the word, that's fine. I personally have no issue being called a cisgender male. It bothers me when some people use it as an insult, but people do the same with "transgender" and I'm sure you don't stop using that word.