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Originally Posted by naraht
I'm just confused as to why you think I support you on this. I'm pointing out that it isn't a made up term and the use of cis as the opposite isn't special to sexual identity. I have a non-binary child who let my wife and I know at age 20. (Has *really* early male pattern baldness which as a gender marker tends to affect things as it would from a nb who is a D breast size, however I know someone for who that is true as well.
Main reason that I haven't chimed in otherwise with a position on this is that it doesn't affect my fraternity since we aren't social and as such admitted both women and men in the 1970s. I honestly think having a fraternity where the situation of having brothers able to date each other *and* working through which students can be admitted 50 years ago tends to make the group in general more liberal on the topic. (the first out of the closet homosexual I ever met was my big brother as a Pledge)
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Okay, so….. I get that you weren’t “supporting me”, and I didn’t say you were. I said your chemistry example actually makes my point clearer. And then you’re like… “I’m not taking a position” or something like that, which is nonsense, because you did take a position by clarifying you don’t support my point. So, I’m not twisting your words, I’m telling you how they land. That’s what you’re not getting, naraht.
Yes, “cis” as a prefix isn’t made up, and no one’s arguing Latin roots don’t exist. But in chemistry, “cis/trans” means you can physically verify a structural flip. Spectroscopy, molecular geometry…. you can test it. It’s measurable.
In gender talk, the label does not describe a structural shift. I mean, nobody flips chromosomes, gametes, or reproductive function like a molecule flips across a bond. The prefix is real, the flip is ideological. Big difference.
And I respect that this is personal for your family, I really do. But compassion and clarity don’t cancel each other out. One doesn’t rewrite the other.
Latin prefix or not, the biology stays the same. That was my point, and it still is.