Sure. It's what I (and most cisgender people) grew up with--the experience of having your externally visible gender and your internal self-image of gender aligned.
I had it when I didn't even *know* it was possible to be transgender, so it's not defined relative to transgender experience but as an experience in itself.
(shrug) I guess transgender means having or having once had your external gender and your self image of gender not align.
And cisgender means having always had your external gender and your self image of gender aligned.
And of course, just like being male or female, or gay or straight, it's presumably a spectrum, with most people coming at one end or another and a handful somewhere in the middle.
In other words, cisgender means never having had characteristically transgender experiences. Thus we might call cisgender "non-transgender". Though you do make an interesting point about a cis/trans spectrum.
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I had it when I didn't even *know* it was possible to be transgender, so it's not defined relative to transgender experience but as an experience in itself.
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And cisgender means having always had your external gender and your self image of gender aligned.
And of course, just like being male or female, or gay or straight, it's presumably a spectrum, with most people coming at one end or another and a handful somewhere in the middle.
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