"Transgender" in its modern usage does not mean that the trans person has "changed gender" It means that their real/internal gender is different from their assigned gender, that the two gender designations are on "opposite sides of the gender line"
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Which is the same way we talk about "trans" and "cis" configurations of molecules -- are the functional groups on opposite sides of the backbone or on the same side It's a fairly neat analogy
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I always imagined it was more inspired by cis- and trans- isomers in chemistry. Does anyone know for sure?
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That was my guess too. Of course it's ultimately the same thing really, but I'd be curious to know too
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It's unnecessary snobbery anyway until these people form a campaign to ban any and all uses of the word "prequel". Because as long as you let that stand you have no business calling out word formation patterns anywhere else.
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I don’t mind “prequel” as long as it means a work that takes place chronologically in-universe prior to the original but was created afterward.
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My favorite is downstring when someone takes a bunch of examples from famous Classical philosophers using cis and trans in this exact way to dunk on this person who says that Ceasar uses them in variant ways.
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