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What does cis-gender mean?

(adj.) Cisgender refers to individuals whose gender identity aligns with the sex they were assigned at birth. The term cisgender is derived from the Latin preposition cis, which means "on this side of," and is the antonym of trans, which means "across" or "beyond."



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