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2023-06-22 11:11:01 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 91A535E5B6791D89D5E9C22ECE763A507BE3D295C74B9B391D419B57FFD3E60A
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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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