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OK, it’s in the Oxford English Dictionary – but do you know what ‘cis’ means?

"If I can’t say a word to my hairdresser and expect to be understood, it’s not, in my view, a good word. Cisgender smacks too much of esoteric gender theory to me; all very well if you get a kick out of discussing the minutiae of identity politics all day, but I’d rather talk about important stuff. Like lipstick." Ha! But joking aside, there's an important point here about using (misusing?) academic terminology outside of that context, however well-meaning. (The same goes for concepts like 'microaggression': misapprehended by a broader audience that doesn't grok the discrete difference in meaning a term like 'aggression' can have.) #link