Disorienting Cisgender (with Perry Zurn)

Podcast: Hotel Bar Sessions · Leigh M. Johnson, Jennifer Kling, Bob Vallier

Opublikowano: 2026-07-03

We are living through the most intense public argument about gender in living memory, and somehow managing to conduct it without agreeing on what the most basic terms mean. The word cisgender — or just cis — is either standard vocabulary on HR onboarding documents and medical intake forms or, depending on where you live and who holds power at the moment, possibly a slur, possibly banned from government buildings, possibly both at once. The word has been around for thirty years, but its history is largely unknown to the people who argue or legislate against it. What most people are curr...