The word cisgender has proven contentious at times. [31] In a piece for The Irish Times, novelist John Boyne argued against the usage of the word cisgender. He does not see himself as a cis guy, but rather as a man. He contends that no one should "impose an unfavorable phrase" on another. [32] In a blog post titled "I Am NOT Cisgendered," queer musicologist J Nelson Aviance argues against the use of the term cis for a similar reason, calling the imposition of an identity "disturbing" and invalidating his experience of gender; he refers to the label as "psychological and intellectual violence" for denying his right to self-determination. [33]
Others have noted that the word does not adequately describe intersex persons, it explains. Due to the fact that intersex individuals have atypical sex features (for example, genitals, hormones, reproductive glands, and/or chromosomes), it is difficult to describe their gender identity in terms of the sex into which they were born. K.J. Rawson, a transgender researcher and assistant professor of English and women's and gender studies at the College of the Holy Cross, said in an interview with the LGBT news site Advocate.com that the term is not intended to be disparaging, but rather accurate.
On 1994, the word cisgender was created in a Usenet forum discussing transgender issues.
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Volkmar Sigusch, a German sexologist, coined the term cissexual (zissexuell in German) in his 1998 article "The Neosexual Revolution." He credits his 1991 two-part piece "Die Transsexuellen und unser nosomorpher Blick" for coining the phrase. [24]
Cisgender is a term that refers to the overwhelming majority of persons who are not transgender. If a doctor says, "It's a girl!" When a kid is born and grows up to identify as a woman, that individual is cisgender. Similarly, a newborn born as a male and growing up to identify as a man is cisgender. This is true for around 99 percent of the population, according to the most recent available figures. The term exists to act as a synonym for transgender. According to author Julia Serano, the greatest comparison is to homosexuality and heterosexuality. There was a period when homosexuals were regarded abnormal and everyone else was considered normal, she explains. Nowadays, many identify as straight or heterosexual. This term most likely applies to around 95% of the population, yet the heterosexual population is seen to be significantly smaller.
