I dont want to live in this reality any more.

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[–] 2 points 5 months ago (13 children)

I do have a question though, when did cis become an acronym, and what does it stand for now? When I was learning English, I had learned that it was a Latin root, to imply "on the same side of", like "cisisochemic" or "cisatlantic," and is the opposite of trans, or "on the opposite side of."

At some point in the last few years, I've been seeing it capitalized in places, and I wonder why the switch? Unfortunately, when I look it up, I get a mismatched set of AI slop results and generated pages that say nothing coherent.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    It can very well come from Latin. Trans can be translated as "above", "beyond" or "across". Cis can be translated as "within" or "inside".

    So someone who is Cisgender is "inside" their gender assigned at birth. Someone who is transgender is "beyond" their assigned gender at birth and now has a different gender.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (10 children)

    Yeah, but my comment said that I understood that, but I was wondering when it became an acronym, and what does that acronym mean.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    Trans is just the opposite of cis. Cis is someone comfortable in their AGAB and someone who is trans is not comfortable in thei AGAB.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    I understand the meaning of it when it's written in lowercase. I mean, I'm trans. Came out a decade and a half ago.

    When I see it written in all capital letters, it's an acronym, and I have no idea what that acronym means.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    You have more patience than I, you were very clear above. I am not sure why some people capitalize it. I think it's just a weird mistake that people think seems right because it doesn't seem like "English".

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I didn't grow up speaking English and only learned it in my teenage years. It makes me doubt whether my skills with three decades of English are proficient or not.

    でも、時々英語は本当に分かりにくい。しょうがない、ね?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    "cis" gets written in all-caps because cis people are fucking stupid and don't give a shit about learning the right terminology. that's the gist of it

    sometimes they think it's an acronym that means "comfortable in skin"

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