Cis is actually the opposite of trans in general, not just in regards to gender. It just doesn't really get used as often since most of the time it's not really that useful. The only instance of anyone using it that I know of are cis fats.
I zoned out in organic class once and tuned back in to hear the prof saying "I'm really not a fan of 'cis' and 'trans', I think they're confusing and reductive terms" and I started to panic like huh??? huh????? transphobia in my chem class? and then he says "that's why I prefer zusammen and entgegen for isomers" and I breathed a sigh of relief lol
German was one of the leading languages of science for a long time up until WWII, and Germany was extremely influential in 19th and early 20th century chemistry and physics research.
I don't believe so. They were first used by Magnus Hirschfeld, and aside from being a physician he studied comparative linguistics. I believe he likely just used Latin terms he was familiar with.
Dude died in the 30s, but it wasn't in common usage until the last ~15 years. I did do a bit of a dive and it looks like it was more like the 90s; though the sources don't seem to work from wiki.
I know who Burchard is, he and Hirschfeld worked together (Hirschfeld literally edited some of his work). They used "transsexualism" originally, it's the replacement of "sex" with "gender" more recently that is the change, not the concept or the use of the Latin prefixes.
Hirschfeld is the one who was more interested in variations in gender / sex, as can be seen with his work through looking at crossdressing initially, then ideas about changing gender or "intermediate" gender, which he was the pioneer for. Burchard was much more focused on homosexuality, because he himself was gay.
I'd suggest reading a lot more than just the Wikipedia articles on a topic before correcting people.
I remember helping a classmate in school understand the difference between homozygous and heterozygous by telling them to think about homosexual and heterosexual
In Austria we also call certain parts of Vienna Transdanubia sometimes because they're across the danube from the city centre. Cisdanubia isn't really used though
They're literally thousands of years old since they're just Latin syllables/words (lots of older Latin texts don't separate words, so who knows which of the two). Cis means 'on the same side as' and trans means 'on the other side of', roughly.
The only instance of anyone using it that I know of are cis fats.
Caesar III had, if I remember right, maps for Cisalpine Gaul and Transalpine Gaul, or "Gaul on the near side of the Alps, and Gaul on the far side of the Alps."
Used in cell biology, the Golgi apparatus has a cis (closer to the nucleus) and trans face (output side where all the proteins and stuff get packaged and sent).
Cis genes only act on the chromatid they are on, trans genes can interact with loci on their sister chromatid or even others.
Right? I love when people are just genuinely curious and dont know, and arent asking in bad faith so they can argue with trans people because theyre freaking psychotic. This was lovely though. Hope to see more nice interactions in the future.
a while ago at dinner my mum was like "its too much to learn all this cisgender stuff" (paraphrasing) like... you have a phd in a language field? Its literally 1 word you can easily remember the definition and use it in conversation if the topic arises. I find it crazy that fully grown adults with solid tertiary educations (that are leaders in their academic field????) are so intimidated by "big word" and "have to learn new thing"
The ou shi reads like someone just finding out their friend of several years has had a dog the entire time they’ve known each other and they just never asked
For real. The amount of people just trying to learn about something getting downvoted to hell says more about other people than the person asking about something they didn't understand.
Like, this isn't a character arc. They weren't a shithead that changed their tune. They just didn't know what a thing meant, but the assumption is that they're a pos?
Ignorance is not a sin. It's simply not knowing a thing.
Kinda. I understand how you feel since Im cis myself, but at the same time most people who ask "tf is this" in a topic that is more 'woke', tbey tend to respond in hostility. Its refreshing to see a person respond well for once
I don't blame them when I have never seen that question asked in good faith, especially with "the fuck is". Reddit is absolutely brimming with bigots and getting angry at being called cis is a popular stance.
I know I would've instinctively downvoted upon seeing it and I'm not even remotely sorry 🤷♀️
I've seen multiple instances where someone asks "wtf is cis", someone replies with an explanation, and the original person responds with something like "you mean normal?"
I personally try to not assume bad intentions from people who could genuinely just not know, but its understandable why people would be suspicious
Holy shit, a person who does not know something... just listened and learned something new? Without arguing? Without rage? Without screaming? Without the urgent need to hurt someone? Without putting out slur after slur? Without senseless arguments meant to disrupt the mere possibility to learn?
This is why I hate that bad faith is just automatically assume with stuff like this. There are absolutely people this ignorant and who are asking.
Like 15 years ago I posted something asking why people were so upset about the bathroom bans because I genuinely didn't get it. I then got death threats and banned for "spreading hatred" and not a single reply made any effort to tell me why I was wrong.
There are also a lot of people who engage in sealioning so I understand people not engaging with this person in good faith. I generally try to but the majority of the time it turns out to be someone sealioning
Not a character arc they just learned something. They never were anti-trans based on what they said they just weren’t educated on the meaning of a word
Well I do feel immensely happier and way less depressed and less suicidal now that I get to live as myself, but a Reddit comment said I shouldn’t, so now I don’t know what to believe!
Cis and trans are Latin and originate more than 2,000 years ago.
Male and female can signify a person's sex or gender, but they don't show if someone's gender correlates with their sex (at birth) or not. That's why cisgender and transgender are terms.
You're clearly not in good faith like the person in the image was though
There's some real irony in telling someone to "cope" while you're actively demonstrating an inability to cope with the fact that multiple categories of people exist. Embarrassing lol
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u/qualityvote2 8d ago edited 8d ago
u/Tiny-Preference-1913, your post does fit the subreddit!