cissexual

[Laurence Horn]

On Jun 10, 2014, at 12:04 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> Ever notice how the most interesting thing about people nowadays is who
> they like to do it with and why?
>
> JL
>

Not in the OED, though.  There's no entry yet for "cisgender" much less "cissexual", but lots of other "cis" forms:

cis-atlantic   n. on this side the Atlantic
1823   T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 381   Our second [maxim should be], never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs.
[sounds a bit Monroe-Doctrinaire, does it not?]

cis-ˈborder   n.
1901   19th Cent. Apr. 711   Raised in fixed proportion from the transborder and cis-border clans.

cis-lunar   n. on this side the moon.

cis-marine   n. on this side of the sea.

cis-pontine   n. on this side the bridges, viz., in London, north of the Thames.

cis-uˈralian   n.
1886   Encycl. Brit. XXI. 79/2   The Permians, or Cis-Uralian Finns.

[etc.]

transf. to time = Since, subsequent to.
cis-Elizabethan   n.
1870   J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 3   The modern school, which admits no cis-Elizabethan authority save Milton.
cis-reformation   n.
a1661   T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Staff. 45,   I place him confidently not a trans-, but Cis-reformation-man.


and my favorite of them all (re who one likes to do what with, perhaps):

cis-bedpost   n.
1864   Miss Cornwallis in Sat. Rev. XVIII. 463   Pray tell me about the trans-bedpost regions; my whole concern at present is the cis-bedpost—a very narrow domain.


--LH, currently cisgendered, cissexual, cisvestite, and in general just a hopeless old cissy

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> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:25 AM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
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>> A little difficult to follow, but to use the idea of a grid I proposed in
>> my e-mail today titled "Cishet and Q permutations," I read these terms as
>> simply using only one variable for sex or gender (plus additional verbiage
>> for personal history).
>>
>> Writing out my grid (formatted for e-mail) with A meaning matching the
>> self and B not:
>>
>> Straight, cissexual, cisgender person:
>> O (sexual orientation) = B
>> S = A
>> G = A
>>
>> (That is, a straight person's sexual orientation does not match their sex
>> or gender because they have a sexual preference for someone of a different
>> sex/gender.)
>>
>> Gay, cissexual, cisgender person:
>> O =  A
>> S = A
>> G = A
>>
>> Bisexual, cissexual, cisgender person:
>> O = A, B
>> S = A
>> G = A
>>
>> Intersexual, cissexual, cisgender person:
>> O = A
>> S = A, B (or A > B as intersexuality does not come 50-50)
>> G = A
>>
>> Serano's terms I believe are simply single-variable terms in such a grid:
>> Cissexual person:
>> S = A
>>
>> Cisgender person:
>> G = A
>>
>> For third and fourth genders, the letters C and D could be utilized.
>>
>> Benjamin Barrett
>> Formerly of Seattle, WA
>>
>> Learn Ainu! https://sites.google.com/site/aynuitak1/videos
>>
>> On Jun 9, 2014, at 5:44 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Wikipedia:
>>>
>>> "Julia Serano has defined *cissexual* as 'people who are not transsexual
>>> and who have only ever experienced their mental and physical sexes as
>> being
>>> aligned', while cisgender is a slightly narrower term for those who do
>> not
>>> identify as transgender (a larger cultural category than the more
>> clinical
>>> transsexual)."
>>>
>>> Got that?
>>>
>>> JL
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