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sounds_sound · 4690 days ago · link · · parent · post: This is how you *dont* write an article about trans issues
I think I get it. I guess the difficult thing for me to wrap my head around (and the most fun to think about) is what the suffix trans even means. I'm sure you've thought about this plenty. It seems a good starting point for me to deal with such a complex set of ideas. Trans: meaning 'across', 'beyond', or 'on the opposite side'. So for something to be trans there needs to be more than one. But Cis: meaning 'on the same side' shares the same logic because one cannot be on the same side of anything without an identified opposite. So following this, I would think that because we use the word transgender it would mean that something was and then was not. And I guess that's where I start to get hung up because if gender is between the ears and not the legs, and if she was always a she, then why use the word transgender at all? Now I've talked myself into thinking that the word trans-gender is maybe oxymoronic. Do I sound like an idiot?