Ah, boring old cis-female here.
When I first came across this construction, I thought that using "cis" to contrast with "trans" in context of gender dysphoria was a rather clever play on words. Perhaps Jennifer Diane Reitz's claim that transgender people are smarter than others has some basis? (I would strongly hope not. I find her attitudes mostly fairly repugnant.)
Really? When I took chemistry, I was taught to pronounce that prefix "sis", to rhyme with "kiss". (That may be a matter of dialect, naturally, or age, or plain old forgetfulness.) If I were pronounce it the way the Romans did, it would be "kees", to rhyme with "lease". [em]That[/em] would point me out as a ridiculous poseuse.[footnote]Yes, that was intended as irony.[/footnote]MarsAtlas said:You say it with a "z" sound at the end, rather than an "s" sound.
When I first came across this construction, I thought that using "cis" to contrast with "trans" in context of gender dysphoria was a rather clever play on words. Perhaps Jennifer Diane Reitz's claim that transgender people are smarter than others has some basis? (I would strongly hope not. I find her attitudes mostly fairly repugnant.)