well, etymologically speaking, the prefix "cis" means "on the same side of" or whatever, and when combined with the root "gender" it basically means the opposite of "transgender"

dumpling lyfe

WEIRD because I was born as what you would describe as "male" but I also have XX chromosomes, which is basically my DNA saying I'm female. WEIRD HUH? seems like maybe we should learn a little about stuff before we open our mouths.

one time I spent $200 on dumplings. they weren't any more expensive than regular dumplings. I just bought a hell of a lot of dumplings.

can we get chinese food instead? I'm aching for some steamed dumplings

it's the same reason that early women's rights movements barred women of color from joining in, or mainstream feminists are openly transmisogynist. they see us as "hurting their cause" (dispite the fact that trans women were the people who essentially got the ball rolling in the early LGB`t` movement) so they actively…

jsyk, the word for a non trans person is "cisgender" cis for short.
but yeah, as a trans woman myself, I usually can't say anything about my gender without someone going "so uh, what's going on, ~down there~???" it's annoying and there are way more interesting things about being trans than that one thing everyone…