I saw it first on Trans-Theory, a decade ago, used by Heike Boedeker.
I knew what it meant immediately, not from chemists' usage, but from
the terminology employed thirty years earlier (on popular television!)
by NASA technicians to differentiate between different orbits of lunar
space missions: the cislunar orbits were changed by burns to translunar
ones.
The good usage I see for this term is adjectival, modifying
abstractions: "The transgender concerns in this topic are more complex
than the cisgender concerns."
I prefer to use the word "transgendered" to refer to people (that is to
say, people who have been gendered--binarily categorized--across from
what one might have expected from their physical condition at birth),
and "transgender" to refer to abstract principles (for example,
transgender issues). One could similarly refer to cisgendered
people--categorized on the same side as one might expect from birth
physicality--and cisgender abstractions.
Steve/Stacey
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