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Originally Posted by Nell_McCoy

From what I have seen so far I like Kellie as a person and were I in her company i would have the good manners to refer to her as "she" and treat her as a woman, however I do not see this as some kind of right which a person can demand. Any woman has a right to regard an individual in possession of a penis as being male. If a man has the courage and tenacity to part with his penis and testicles I believe they then have a RIGHT to be regarded legally and in every other way as being female. Many people believe many bizarre things about themselves it does not necessarily make it so. I object to being referred to as a "Cis" woman, I am a woman and do not need the transgender community to create a prefix for me. I am NOT transphobic, I do not have an unnatural fear or dislike of transexual people, I support those wishing to have a sex change operation and would treat them with dignity and respect, until the operation is complete a M2F transexual is sadly, scientifically still male no matter how much they may wish otherwise.

Cisgender is not a word created by the transgender community, it's a sociological definition for people that feel their biological sex matches their assigned gender (which is what you're misunderstanding here, there is a difference between the two). It is anything but offensive, but some like to believe it is because it's a new word they've never seen before that looks a bit complicated~