Thanks, that's a very useful perspective. (By the way, if you are interested there's a much longer comment thread at the Livejournal version of this post, with a range of perspectives.)
I've not come across the particular usage you describe - the definition by Eli Green in the page you link to seems in fact to be making a distinction betweeen "cisgender" and "gender normative" precisely on the grounds that the former doesn't imply normative gender expression - but I can totally believe it exists. My 15-year-old daughter tells me on Tumblr some people use "cis" as a straight-up insult, which just makes me very tired. That's the trouble with language, I suppose: you can coin a term (not that I coined this one!) but you can't control how it will fare in the choppy waters of general usage, and what meanings and connotations may be added or taken away. That's another reason for writing this post, I suppose - to encourage people to think about the word and what it implies (and what it doesn't imply) and be careful in their use of it.
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Date: 2014-05-15 08:41 am (UTC)I've not come across the particular usage you describe - the definition by Eli Green in the page you link to seems in fact to be making a distinction betweeen "cisgender" and "gender normative" precisely on the grounds that the former doesn't imply normative gender expression - but I can totally believe it exists. My 15-year-old daughter tells me on Tumblr some people use "cis" as a straight-up insult, which just makes me very tired. That's the trouble with language, I suppose: you can coin a term (not that I coined this one!) but you can't control how it will fare in the choppy waters of general usage, and what meanings and connotations may be added or taken away. That's another reason for writing this post, I suppose - to encourage people to think about the word and what it implies (and what it doesn't imply) and be careful in their use of it.