I get asked not to use the word "cis" often but I do because it is convenient in the same way that "heterosexual" is convenient even though it came into being after & #39;homosexual" and because of it. https://twitter.com/ArielleScarcell/status/1254597661845606402">https://twitter.com/ArielleSc...

People who think the word is unnecessary have probably not talked about trans issues much. I find myself needing a word for "non-trans" often because the issue is often about cis people& #39;s attitudes or whether cis women& #39;s rights are threatened.

Some of you will say that that still doesn& #39;t make it necessary as you can just say "people" and "women" to mean "not trans" & reserve the qualifier for trans people who are the minority & the outliers but this necessarily implies that trans people are not people or women.