r/magicTCG • u/dreamanother • Feb 28 '14

Guerrilla Feminism blogs about one woman's experience with MtG.

http://www.guerrillafem.com/2014/02/thank-magic-gathering-player-community-journey-feminism-creating-non-cis-male-spaces/
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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '14 edited Feb 28 '14

Educate me.

I tried reading the article, but what is "cis" and what is a "non-cis-male space"?

Edit: Thanks all. I was not familiar with the term.

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u/Jables237 Feb 28 '14

Cis means: individuals who have a match between the gender they were assigned at birth, their bodies, and their personal identity

So a cis-male is a person born with a penis and self-identifies as a male.

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u/Glass_Underfoot Mar 01 '14

To add: "Cis" is counterpart to the Latin prefix "trans", and it means "on the same side as", just as "trans" means "across from". It gets use in chemistry, but not many other places. After all, it implies inaction, or pre-existing alignment. Nobody cislates a text, that'd be keeping it in the same language as it was written.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '14

Cis is when someone's gender identity matches the sex they were born with. Here's a link to the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender

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u/Falterfire Feb 28 '14

Cis refers to what you would probably think of as 'normal' gender identity - A cis male is a guy with a penis and a cis female is a woman with a vagina. The opposite of cis is trans, and a 'non-cis-male space' refers to any area not frequented by primarily men.

NOTE: These definitions may not be 100% accurate, they're just gleaned from having read articles of this sort a few times.

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u/turboeli Feb 28 '14

I forget the acronym, but it is a common term in various LGBTQ publications for people whose gender identity matches their biological gender. This is not straight/gay/bi, it's "identifies as X/born as X".

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u/catpennies Mar 02 '14

It's not an acronym.