In response to blip #134880
Nin10dope said:
I never knew that O:
I had always wondered where it came from
technically the latin words ''trans'' and ''cis'' (meaning across/beyond and on/near respectively) were already kind of pseudo-antonymous to begin with. they both more used in refrence to geography to start, though.
the earliest useage of "cis" in reference to sex/gender in a published work was in Germany, way back near the start of WW1 (1914). the same usage didn't enter english until 80 years later, though.