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Originally Posted by dead..money
That's a lot of words, I don't even know what they all mean. How would you Have described him 10 years ago?
Probably exactly the same except without "cis." Hopefully that's the only word that's confusing.
Cis and trans are opposites, cis is someone whose gender corresponds to the sex they were assigned at birth, trans is someone whose gender doesn't correspond to the sex they were assigned at birth.
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The terms are mildly amusing for organic chemists since they're also used to describe molecular configurations.
Not sure how many will appreciate this story but one of the worst grades I got on a chemistry test related to cis and trans. IUPAC nomenclature uses (E) and (Z) (abbreviations of German words) instead of cis and trans, and on the exam I recall the professor explaining that one could remember it by saying it like a German. So I sounded it out to myself in a German accent - cEEEEs and trahnZZZZ. Easy game, until I got my test back with a 0% on that section - apparently the professor mean ZZZis. As my friends were quick to point out, I did worse than a monkey would have. So at any rate, now I remember (E) and (Z) by pronouncing it wrong, and then reversing it.