Since I started a minor brouhaha on cisgender, I figured I should provide some examples of women (and feminists) who dislike the phrase.  Frankly, I never have gotten a handle on what gender means and never use the phrase gender at all except in gender gap, only because "sex gap" obviously is not useable.  I think sexual stereotypes - and the resultant imposed sexual roles, sexual discrimination, sexual abuse, etc. -  are the problem; all this talk about gender confuses the issue. People who are born intersex may choose to use that phase or identify with one sex or the other. Those who  state they are really individuals of the opposite sex trapped in the wrong body certainly can define themselves as transgenders or transsexuals.  But trying to redefine all individuals (straight, gay/lesbian or bi) by whether or not they are transgender or cisgender is absurd.

http://sarahditum.com/2014/04/21/notes-from-a-non-cis-woman/

http://liberationcollective.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/a-feminist-critique-of-cisgender/

http://bugbrennan.com/2012/12/12/cisterhood-is-powerful/

http://uppitybiscuit.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/do-not-call-me-cisgender-you-do-not-have-my-permission-to-name-me/

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/378511/cis-ridiculous-christine-sisto

http://bmgnedra.wordpress.com/2014/03/28/sscabdscab-reframing-the-conversation/

http://glosswatch.com/2014/04/20/beauty-and-the-cis/
http://glosswatch.com/2014/04/24/9-reasons-why-cis-isnt-working/

http://bigboobutch.com/2013/09/16/cis-queerly-not-yours/


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