I'm fully aware of the OED's descriptivist leanings, as much as I'm not a fan of them. That doesn't change the thrust of my argument, to wit, all extant uses of the 'cis' prefix are totally at odds with what people want to use it to mean in 'cisgender' (which is, of course, not in the OED, although I have no doubt that it someday will be, despite my hopes to the contrary).
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Your attitude towards linguistics is certainly the prevailing one, it's simply not mine.
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That is, indeed, precisely what I would like the term to mean, and a state I sincerely wish more people would attain.
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Re: Down with L'Académie Française!
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Your attitude towards linguistics is certainly the prevailing one, it's simply not mine.
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That is, indeed, precisely what I would like the term to mean, and a state I sincerely wish more people would attain.