Tag: Cis and Trans

  • Cis and Trans: Untangling Confusions

    by Jason Stotts There is a new movement underfoot now, coming from the transsexual community, to rename non-transsexuals “cis-sexuals”.  The name comes from a play with the Latin prefixes.  The Latin prefix “trans-” means “across” and is used to signify that one’s gender is “across” (different than) one’s biological sex: that while one might be…