X now treats the term cisgender as a slur

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X now treats the term cisgender as a slur
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When you have a trans-something you have cis-something. It's how language works.

The only way for cisgender to be a slur is if you consider transgender a slur too.

Now I'm curious what a cisformer would be in the context of electrical engineering

Ok let me rephrase for pedantic people, adjectives with trans prefix have a correspondent cis adjective.

And an electrical cisformer would be something that would keep energy inside the same circuit at roughly the same voltage, so basically a wire. Feel free to use the term if you want to oversell something.

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I will start using "cisformer" in place of "wire" from now on, in a similar manner to how we at work sometimes refer to "power aspect negation cycle" for pulling the plug on something and reconnect it.

Also, I guess a cisistor would be just a regular switch or potentiometer.

"..and here's where I keep assorted lengths of cisformers!"

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A cisformer would just be a conductor (like a wire). It takes a current/voltage on one side, and gives you the same current/voltage on the other side.

Now if we’re talking about the big robots that turn into cars, a cisformer would be a car that turns into the same car (so just any car).

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You could construct a cis- form of the word, but it's not always going to be useful, or even sensible.

Cismit? Cisaction? Cislate? Cisportation?

Cismit - communicating with one self, for e.g. inner dialog

Cisaction - an agreement with one self or within a group

Cislate - to rephrase in the same language

Cisportation - moving inside a boundary

I kinda love all of these. Especially cislate, I have to do that one so often

Or to cislate your last statement, "I am required to do that one frequently."

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