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This is false. "Cis" had been a scientific prefix for centuries, since it comes from Latin, meaning ‘on the side of’. ‘Cisgender" was coined in 1994 by a grad student in a USENET group. https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/may-2017/tracing-terminology-researching-early-uses-of-cisgender
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