“The main reason I’m offended by the constant questioning of ‘cis’ and people calling it an abusive term, is that it suggests that when we talk about gender, cisgender people are automatically ‘normal’, and transgender people are to be singled out. It posits cisgenderism as the default. As many homo- and bisexual people have said over the years to heterosexual people: you’re not normal, you’re just common.”
“My language is changing. I don’t understand it. I read all those books and then I find these words just coming out of my mouth. I don’t even know where they come from.”
—Sarah, 10 years old. From Words, Words, Words: Teaching Vocabulary in Grades 4-12 by Janet Allen.