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1. Vagina Museum (vagina_museum@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 00:02:49 JST Vagina Museum

   We're going to post something that isn't allowed on Twitter: a brief history of the term "cisgender"...

   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 01:37:02 JST Machismo

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     @vagina_museum >German
     Gonna need a nose check on that one
     >sexologist
     nvm, bignose tribe spotted
   • Vagina Museum (vagina_museum@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 01:37:03 JST Vagina Museum

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     The first use of the "cis" prefix referring to gender comes from a 1914 text by German physician and sexologist Ernst Burchard. He used "Cisvestitismus" to describe the inclination to wear clothing which conforms with a person's gender - the opposite of "Transvestitismus" (transvestism), the inclination to wear gender non-conforming clothes.

   • Vagina Museum (vagina_museum@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 23-Jun-2023 01:37:04 JST Vagina Museum

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     "Cis" or "cisgender" is a term which means that someone has the same gender identity as the gender they were assigned at birth - it means that the person is not transgender.

     The word comes from a Latin prefix meaning "on the side of", while the prefix "trans" means "on the other side of". These prefixes also used in biology, geography, chemistry and genetics.