Birdwatch Note Rating
2023-06-21 12:53:42 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 29A4A997A969F0CF291B0BEF0CC09F453D249DD0A2FAC99C3DD877CFE0A621B8
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Elon Musk is mistaken. The term Volkmar Sigusch created was cissexual, from the german term zissexuell. The term cisgender was first used in a Usenet post in 1994 by Dana Leland Defosse. The word Cis itself is a latin preposition meaning "on this side of." https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/may-2017/tracing-terminology-researching-early-uses-of-cisgender https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cissexual https://www.dictionary.com/e/gender-sexuality/cis/
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