What is cis-transgender?

[Janet Merai]

I have been hearing about cis-transgendered woman and am confused about to what it is, any help?

[Arch]

I have never heard that term before. Considering that cis and trans are basically opposites, cis-transgender sounds like an oxymoron to me. What is the context? Whoever is using the term might be confused.

[Janet Merai]

I read it somewhere in the Transgender Talk forum, and I do not really know, sorry :3

[Arch]

I did a search for this term and couldn't find any references to it on this site. Sorry.

[Cindy]

Never heard of cistransgender. You do hear cis-girls and trans-girls as a reference to girls born with the right brain and body vs trans who are the female brain and male body

[Janet Merai]

Thank you Cindy, what is a cis-girl in-depth anyway?

[Cindy]

It's a bit of slang. Cis-girls are physically born females with a brain that wishes to be female and a body that is female, sometimes known as real girls which many transgender girls find offensive (including me ). So sometimes trans-girls refer to the female of the Homo sapien species that was born correctly as cis and those of us who are female but in the wrong body as trans. It's a play on the greek or latin for the opposite of trans being cis. One means right and one left but that is irrelevant to the use in gender identity. It's more of a way for TG people to refer to the lucky and trying not to offend.

LoL
Cindy James

[Sheila]

More terms??? Who needs them. I'm female and so are a lot of other people. The other part are male.

[Hypatia]

I did a search for this term and couldn't find any references to it on this site. Sorry.

That's because the search function on this site isn't worth a plugged nickel.

[K8]

Back in the old days - am I showing my age? - we referred to GGs (genetic girls).  The term cis-girls seems to have replaced that.  I suppose we could also refer to single-spirited women, rather than most of us on this site being two-spirited. 

Our language just doesn't have good words for what we are, but language is changeable and gradually it will reflect our (the laguage speakers') new understanding of the world.

(Sorry.  Maybe I need another cup of coffee. )

- Kate

[NicholeW.]

Sorry.  Maybe I need another cup of coffee.

"cis-transgendered" does seem rather oxymoronic. If you read that on a trans-site I am not at all surprised. Perhaps one of those who wishes to say that after all is done surgically that she is then as much cis-sexual as any woman born with the appropriate sex organs and reproductive tract.

As for the cuppa? Well, that seems like the best idea yet. Yes, I will! You show excellent sense and sensibility, Kate.

Nichole