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I couldn't work out how to just add a comment without editing the html source, and I'm not confident of not screwing up the whole page so I let it be. I think the term should be kept for discussion's sake, so that we can take about transgender people and non-transgender people on a more equal basis. Although if we mean a person who is not transgender, why not just say that? I think non-transgender is as inoffensive as non-homosexual. But then, I'm the sort of sick puppy who called heterosexuals "cuntfuckers" when they used sexual terms to abuse me. But, living slightly outside of the little gender boxes most folk seem to want to squeeze into, I don't find either term , trans or cis, to apply to me, so it's not a catch all. I certainly don't live within either normative gender, so I am not cis. But I live entirely within my own gender (an approximate description of which might be "Divine Androgyny"), so I AM cis. I am not transistioning from one normative gender to the other, so I am not trans. But I do transgress normative gender limits, so I AM trans. But while I have altered my body in line with my androgynous gender, I have not altered the gender of my internal reality, which has always been androgynous and divine. But to discuss those in normative genders, both those who transition from one to the other, and those who never shift, the terms may be useful. norrie mAy-welby more ultra than trans, actually