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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]where did the term "cis" com from what does "cis" even mean?[/quote]

Dictionaries and Google are your friend. Cis is a prefix that comes from the Latin for "on the same side". In chemistry it's used when two atoms are on the same side of a molecule. When speaking of gender it refers to people whose gender identity aligns with(is "on the same side")with their biological sex at birth. If you were born a biological woman and that's how you identify (whether you are sexually attracted to men, women, everyone or no one) you are cisgender, a cisgender woman.
cis-
prefix
prefix: cis-
1.
on this side of; on the side nearer to the speaker.
"cisatlantic"
HISTORICAL
on the side nearer to Rome.
"cisalpine"
(of time) closer to the present.
"cis-Elizabethan"
2.
referring or relating to people whose sense of personal identity and gender corresponds with their birth sex.
"cisgender"
3.
CHEMISTRY
denoting molecules with cis arrangements of substituents.
"cis -1,2-dichloroethylene"
Origin

from Latin cis ‘on this side of’.[/quote]

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