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I assume it's a bit like how a few straight people used to object to the term 'straight', generally complaining that they were just 'normal' people (haven't seen this in years, but it was big in the nineties and early noughties from the more over-sensitive corners of the right wing). Though arguably even more absurd; 'cisgender' is the rough equivalent to the rather dry technical term 'heterosexual', and I've never h…
> 'cisgender' is the rough equivalent to the rather dry technical term 'heterosexual' I'm pretty sure 'cisgender' means "identifies as birth gender" and has no connection to your sexual preferences (hence 'cishet' being 'identifies as birth gender, attracted to opposite gender'.)
What I mean is that it's not even slang (as "straight", which some heterosexuals used to take offence to, is); it's about as dry a description of non-trans people as we have in English.