Angelica Ross

There are cis women who are being attacked and called men because they are wearing makeup and because they are too tall, and they might have an Adam's apple. Once cis women start to realize it's not just harmful to trans women, then we'll start to come together more and attack this together. It sucks, but we're all under the patriarchy.

American Businesswoman

Nicole Maines

Historically, we have seen cis men play trans women and vice versa. That casting breaks through the fourth wall, and it gives people the message that trans people are being played by cis men in real life, which is where we get this idea of men in dresses.

American Actress

Patti Harrison

Not all representation is good representation. I would argue a lot of the marginalized representation in TV and media is off, because a lot of the gatekeepers are white straight cis people who mean well and they think meaning well is enough, and it's not.

Sasha Velour

Trans women, trans men, AFAB - which is assigned female at birth - and non-binary performers, but especially trans women of color, have been doing drag for literal centuries and deserve to be equally represented and celebrated alongside cis men.

American Entertainer

Tommy Dorfman

I have a big problem with cis straight men. I'm sort of discriminatory against them and it's going to take work for me to find a way to build a relationship with those people and trust that those people can be allies.

American Actor

Patrisse Cullors

When folks say 'identity politics' don't matter, it simply reinforces the norm of a white, middle-class, cis narrative and further marginalizes the rest of us who don't share that identity.

American Activist

Janet Mock

Trans folk, especially of color, should not be obligated to help cis folk play catch-up on our experiences. The effort can detract from our work to protect and liberate ourselves.

American Writer

Indya Moore

We deserve the same things that cis women do, the same things that other humans do, from our social lives to our families to love.

Trace Lysette

I think that trans women have endured a lot and they compromise a lot when dealing with cis hetero men.

Hari Nef

What's infuriating is when cis people think celebrating me is celebrating transness.

Understand 'cis' relates to a person's core sense of their own gender matching their birth sex.

Gender Identity

'Cis' is often used in contrast to 'trans', which relates to identities not matching birth sex.

Not 'Trans'

Usually used in discussions about gender identity, rights, or inclusivity.

Context Awareness

Remember 'cis' describes molecules with similar parts on the same side, important in chemistry.

Chemical Arrangement

Imagine the molecule lying flat with groups on one side to visualize 'cis' in chemistry.

Visualizing Molecules

'Cis' references a location near or on the same side of a geographic boundary from the speaker.

Location Specific

'Cis' in geography often has a historical usage, relating to boundaries of ancient regions.

Historical Context

When using 'cis', consider from which side of the boundary you're discussing.

Boundary Perspective

 the gender you were assigned at birth. So now we see that rich, white cis women occupy the analogous situation that rich white men did in broader society. And this has helped me understand why there is so much anger towards rich white women,

An unexpected tool for...

 square kilometers of ocean and we can do the same on the land we must protect the critical wilderness areas we depend on our target is ambitious 30 percent of the planet protected by 2030 but pristine cis has proven that