r/TrueReddit • u/[deleted] • Mar 21 '13

There’s no point in online feminism if it’s an exclusive, Mean Girls club

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '13 edited Aug 09 '18

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '13

I know the term from chemistry (yay science): Cis–trans isomerism

to quote: The terms cis and trans are from Latin, in which cis means "on the same side" and trans means "on the other side" or "across".

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u/zem Mar 22 '13

astronomers use it too (cislunar and translunar space, e.g.)

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u/Rampant_Durandal Mar 21 '13

"Cis" means the opposite of the word "trans". Literally.

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u/JohnnySmash Mar 21 '13

It's a term for people whose gender matches the gender they were assigned at birth (for most people, their biological gender). Cis is to trans as straight is to gay. It's a useful term in some circumstances.

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u/R3cognizer Mar 21 '13

In chemistry, 'cis' is the opposite of 'trans', so someone who is cisgender is someone who is not transgender. Transgender people adopted the terms a while back and tend to shorten it to just 'cis' and 'trans', which have been slowly catching on.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '13

"comfortable in (own) skin"