(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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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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