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When this was first taking off I saw a post where somebody explained that "cis" stood for "Comfortable in Skin" so people that liked their gender were "CIS". Stupid idiots not realizing that it was a latin prefix but even then, I don't think the usage is correct (in deference to all these enlightened dictionary authors that will tell me what words mean) cis, in latin, means "on this side of" - so cisatlantic would mean, on this side of the atlantic ocean or cismountain - this side of the mountain. As opposed to transatlantic (on the other side of the atlantic) or transmountain (other side of the mountain) GENDER means you're one of the sexes. So cisgender means... on this side of one of the sexes. You're cismale or cisfemale... NOT cisgender. So basically it's high latin slang to indicate "same gender" or "different gender"
And it's STILL a made up concept.
I think my favourite part is how it was probably lifted out of some retard's Organic Chemistry classes. We know they don't know their Latin prefixes but there's a high probability that was their first encounter with it and it was seen as nothing more than an opposite to trans-. Which is technically true but misapplied as you outlined.
I recently had a Boomer try to explain to me that "gender" is a word that was invented to be synonymous with and replace "sex", because men couldn't stop giggling.
Seriously.
"Gender" means nothing. It supposedly refers to the societal roles places on people based on sex, but you can also choose your own gender so it contradicts itself.
It's not a useful term, and I won't use it
I've seen people claim that here too. Not exactly true, but gender did probably become a synonym for sex because of prudes not wanting to write sex. Once people learned it was an acceptable "alternative", usage exploded. Of course it actually refers to grammar, and the certain properties of objects that are denoted as masculine or feminine in languages that have that feature. It serves little purpose in English.
And yes I've stopped using "gender" for the most part thanks to these freaks. For work I build databases to collect customer personal information for company records and surveys, and will often have someone come to me with a request for the standard demographics fields, "age, race, gender...", and I always deliver them a database or report with fields "age, race, sex". Haven't had any pushback yet.
If it means Comfortable In Skin, that's about as mask off as we can possibly ask for because they admit that they are wearing skin suits.