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[–]RationalNeutral 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

This would be a good reason for funding medical research on transgender people. Not just to be better able to treat transgender people, but to also improve the precision in the understanding of medicine as it applies to cisgender people.

[–]whateverneverpine 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

There's no such thing as "cis."

[–]RationalNeutral 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It is a chemistry prefix, so yes it does exist.

[–]Tarlatan 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Photosynthesis exists but it does not apply to the human body. A word misapplied is meaning destroyed.

[–]RationalNeutral 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It isn't misapplied though, see the following comment for more information:

https://saidit.net/s/GenderCritical/comments/7tfg/a_question_for_the_community/tb4u

[–]whateverneverpine 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, we're not talking about "chemistry prefixes," we're talking about referring to people in a manner they don't want to be referred to as, and reject the entire premise of the trans/cis binary. Smash the binary - don't reconstitute it.