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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.