Ever heard the word cisgender? (Sometimes it’s abbreviated cis.) I’ve seen it and never bothered to look it up until today. It must be a word that was invented in recent years. Here is what it means, according to Google:
Cisgender is a term for people whose gender identity matches the sex that they were assigned at birth.
Wait, what? I was assigned a sex at birth? I thought I was born a baby boy. I admit to not giving it a lot of thought, but I thought a baby boy would be kind of obvious, especially with the whole circumcision thing. Now it seems there may be something fishy going on. A vision of my hospital’s delivery room pops into my mind.
Doctor: “What should we make this baby — a boy or a girl?”
Nurse: “We made the last one a girl so let’s make this one a boy.”
Doctor: “Okay. Put the baby into the gender assignment machine and make sure it’s set to boy.”
Nurse: “Will do, doctor. Turning the machine on now.”
Machine: nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-Waaaaahhhh!!!-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh…
Nurse: “Here you go, doctor. A brand new baby boy. Turning the machine off now.”
Machine: Nuh-nuh-nuh-nuuuuuuhhhhh………
And just like that, a new baby boy is born. Excuse me, I meant to say assigned. Welcome to modern times.
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