#cis-modal

[beyond-mogai-pride-flags]

Cisgender Bisexual Pride Flag

Cisgender or cismodal: a gender modality that describes someone experiencing the gender they were assigned at birth.

Bi-: identity that encompasses experiencing attraction between two genders and all genders, with or without gender preferences.

Since I made cisdian and cisbian flags, I felt the need of this one today. This is inclusive of AGAB nonconforming (ANC) people, and multimodal people (those with multiple gender modalities).

See also: cisqueer.

[redtail-coins]

New gender term for me: Infracis

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Infracis is a identity for cisness that is queer in its cisness. It subverts traditional ideas of what 'cis' means, and/or it is being cis in such a way that identifying as cis, or as your AGAB/ASAB, is more abnormal or unexpected than identifying as trans would be.

Some reasons that someone would identify as infracis:

1. They are intersex and identify with intergender, and/or with "intersex" as their gender identity, and thus consider themselves cisgender. Because this is not the traditional image of an aptobinary, perisex cis person, they would be infracis

2. They are multigender and consider themselves at least partially cis, but since cisness usually refers to aptobinary cis people, they are infracis

3. They are nonbinary and don't want to transition, so they feel they relate more to cisness, but because they are nonbinary it is expected that they would identify with trans, and not cis, so they would be infracis

4. They identify with an identity that is close to their AGAB or aligned with it, but isn't exactly it (like an AMAB xenoboy).

5. They are transgender and cissexual, cisgender and transsexual, or any other cis-trans combo that makes their cisness queer, so they're infracis

6. They're gender non-conforming and their cisness is constantly called into question because of the way they subvert it.

Or any other queer experience with gender and sex that makes one feel like they're cis in a nonconformant way, or subverting cisness. I'm multigender (aporagender + girl), isocis, and a label collector. I've joked that I'm "the least cisgender cis person" and I feel like my cisness is both subversive to traditional cisness because of my queer gender identity, and queer in its cisness because most people would assume I'm under the trans umbrella or just fully iso, because how genderqueer I am doesn't usually fit the idea of what a cis person is.

Etymology: Infra- meaning "below" "beneath" or "under" and cis from "cisgender," meaning "identifying with one's assigned gender at birth." The prefix "Infra-" was chosen for a few reasons. First, because of the subversion aspect of infracis. Second, because in the color spectrum, infra-red is a shade of red that's just outside of the visible light spectrum, so it both explains the way infracis transcends and goes beyond traditional cisness, as well as paying homage to the relative invisibility of infracis people's inherently queer cisness.

Tagging @cisqueer-archive because you'll like this one and @genderstarbucks because you wanted to see what I would make

[pansexual-pied-piper]

Remember kids, the category term for transness and cisness, aka for the relationship between the gender you were assigned at birth and the one you are, is gender modality, not gender alignment

Gender alignment describes whether and how your gender relates to concepts such as male and female or masculine and feminine or sometimes completely different concepts

[ryanyflags]

brooo you made a fucking cis flag?? that's fucking disgusting, cis people don't deserve pride flags for being fucking cis you retarded idiot. what do cis people suffer for the gender they fucking stick with?? fuck cissies like you, you're just a fucking 14 year old cishet dumb white bitch anyway

See at first I was just going to be like, delete, but when I saw the "cissies like you" part, this actually just turned into being funny.

I have nonbinary in my bio, people usually assume all nonbinary people = trans people. The cis flag in question was made with cis-queer people in mind. Clearly, you're not actually trying to argue with me. Or, by the fact that you ignored it, can it be assumed that you're bigoted against nonbinary, intersex, and even trans people who don't fit in a binary? Also, for whatever is genuine in this ask, if you're trying to argue for minorities (only people who are oppressed deserve pride flags, opposite of "cis people don't deserve pride flags (because they don't suffer/aren't oppressed)"), you should really lay off the slurs, you know, words used against minorities.

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I've actually been questioning my gender modality, it's what inspired me to respond to this instead of deleting it. I've been interested in tris for a while, but I've never thought to apply it to myself. Though this, being called cis, it's interesting. Are there people out there who think I'm cis, even with my nonbinary identity / pride flags? Like trans and cis? And surprisingly, I don't mind being called a cissy. Sure does make me think, maybe I am tris. If I am, well I've already unintentionally built up a bunch of flags and terms I can use, convenient lol.

Are there such things as label tryouts, like pronoun tryouts?

It would be a pretty funny story, "I started identifying as cistrans because someone online called me a cissy".

This was a pretty helpful ask, mission failed and all that. I've never heard of cissy before, but based on the spelling+context, I assume it's referring to cis people, you wouldn't happen to know any other words for cis people, would you?

[io-archival]

Cis+

(note: this was originally coined by pawkips/rotcoric, on a blog which has since been terminated. the archive is here. this post will only contain plaintext.)

A term for to those who identify completely as cisgender, plus additional genders. One doesn’t feel partially cis, one isn’t fluid - one is entirely cis, plus more. One may not know specifically what the additional gender / genders are, so cis+ may be the best way to describe it. Or, one may have a lot of genders, but they all feel like they are simply additional to one’s cis identity.

credit: group project with moots

[dsbmgenric]

schizospec trans, iso, and cis flags

[radiomogai]

[PT: Interfluid. End PT]

This is an old version of the post, being left up for archival purposes! The new version is reblogged here (https://radiomogai.tumblr.com/post/786072659681296384/pt-interfluid-end-pt)

Interfluid

An intersex exclusive term for intersex people who are fluid through gender modalities such as transfemininity, transmasculinity, transneutraulity, transoutherinity, transxeninity, etc.

[floral-ashes]

For Nature’s new series on sex/gender, I wrote with the amazing Shari Brightly-Brown and G Nic Rider about gender modality, the limits of the cis/trans binary, and how to study gender more respectfully and accurately.

Gender modality is a term I coined in 2019 that has picked up a lot of steam in the last few years. It refers to the relationship between someone’s gender identity and gender assigned at birth. It’s a lot like ‘sexual orientation’ but for trans/cis instead of gay/straight.

The term helps us be more accurate and more respectful when describing the experiences of trans people, and opens up space beyond the trans/cis binary.

For instance, it’s often more accurate to say that discrimination against trans people is based on gender modality than based on gender identity. After all, a trans woman has the same gender identity as a cis woman, so that’s not the salient point.

There are also many people who don’t neatly fall in the trans/cis binary, and gender modality helps us talk about that. Non-binary people who don’t identify as cis or trans, gender questioning folks, detrans folks, people with culturally-specific identities, etc.

Our world is incredibly rich with experiences and our language should reflect that. As we say in the paper, the first step in science shouldn’t be assuming, it should be to engage in the world in all its magnificent complexity.

I am grateful to our editor for the opportunity to publish in such a prestigious journal with such amazing coauthors. I hope you all enjoy the read!

For those who prefer to listen, here’s an audio version.

[beyond-mogai-pride-flags]

Sotrigender Pride Flag

Sotrigender or tritrisogender/trisotrigender: trimodal trigender in which someone is iso, trans, and cis; being trisogender as a result of being trigender; or being trigender as a result of being trisomodal.

[genderkoolaid]

oh i see. the problem with some people's intersectionality is that they see the misogyny experienced by white or cis women as Pure Misogyny untouched by race or gender modality, which creates the idea that there is any pure form of oppression untouched by the other aspects of the experiencer. they don't understand that white + cis women's experiences with misogyny don't just lack racism or transphobia, but in fact have traits unique to their white + cis womanhoods.

[chemicalarospec]

I actually just recently found out about this looking up gender modalities again and I was going to make a post but I gave up halfway through! Integragender/Meldgender slay time everyone!!

Are you...

Integragender (also known as Meldgender or Transcis) is a gender modality in which one has multiple genders, one of which matches their assigned gender at birth, meaning they are both cis and trans.

[boygirlfemme]

𐙚 ﹐tris/cistrans modality flags

1) trisfem 2) trismasc

3) trisangi 4) trisneu

5) trisfemasc 5) trisnull

tris/cistrans explanation ꒱

a broad term to denote those who are both trans and cis in some way. some examples of why one may identify this way include:

☆ an intersex person whose lived experiences and identity dont neatly fit into a cis/trans binary

☆ a multigender person who resonates with being cis and trans due to their own multigender experience

☆ a genderfluid person who is cis or trans depending on the point of time

☆ someone who is cusper between cis and trans

☆ any other lived experiences and identity that doesnt fall neatly into a cis or trans binary, falling under both

requested by no one ꒱

[gnc-culture-is]

You don’t have to transition to present how you want.

You can transition if you want, god knows I am in no place to deny people that right, but you do not have to transition to present how you want.

The right people will respect you regardless.

This is about being trans and gnc but the same applies for other modalities: not wanting to transition or just not being trans doesn’t make you Less gnc. It just makes you cis or iso or ipso.

[isobug]

Sadly I feel like I have to reblog this again. But I also want to say that Aro Transmascs and Aro Trans men are fantastic. That goes for Aroallos / Aroallospecs as well !! You are not broken or malicious and you are a part of my community if you’d like to be.

You’ll always be welcome in any space I make and I won’t tolerate any transphobia, antitransmasculinity, exorsexism, or arophobia / aphobia towards you. In this house we love and appreciate the guys !!

If you don't support Transmascs and Trans Men than you're not welcome here + we will never get along. I've seen some really vitriolic harassment directed at them lately (even from other trans people which... what are you doing. why.) so I just wanted to let everyone here know that I think they deserve respect and also that Multigender Transmascs and Multigender Trans Men are wonderful!

[this-is-exorsexism]

Using trans/transgender as a synonym for being valid while indirectly invalidating and erasing people like me who have other gender modalities or the lack thereof outside the trans/cis binary system. Also assuming and insisting that the trans Pride flag and trans as an umbrella represents everyone for similar reasons.

This is exorsexism.

this is exorsexism.

[multigenderswag]

Multigender Survey Results Dec 2023: Other

Modality

"Gender modality" refers to the relationship between one's assigned gender at birth and their gender identity. Cisgender and transgender are the most common modalities, but other labels are used as well.

Participants were asked “Which of these gender modality terms do you identify with?” The options provided were:

Cis: 81 (10.9%)

Trans: 640 (86.1%)

Isogender: 49 (6.6%)

Cistrans: 75 (10.1%)

Transfemmasc/transmascfem: 157 (21.1%)

The survey only provided transfemmasc as an option, but some participants wrote in transmascfem, and these have been combined.

Of the participants who identified as cistrans:

38 identified as both cis and trans (50.7%)

8 identified as cis, and not trans (10.7%)

22 identified as trans, and not cis (29.3%)

7 did not identify as cis or trans (9.3%)

Names

Participants were asked “What sort of name(s) do you use?” The options provided were:

Traditionally masculine name(s): 326 (43.9%)

Traditionally feminine name(s): 185 (24.9%)

Traditionally unisex name(s): 258 (34.7%)

Non-traditional name(s): 256 (34.5%)

Multiple names: 321 (43.2%)

Unsure/questioning: 56 (7.5%)

Intersex

Participants were asked “Are you intersex?” The options provided were:

Yes, and it affects my multigender identity: 52 (7.0%)

Yes, and I am unsure if it affects my multigender identity: 27 (3.6%)

Yes, and it doesn’t affect my multigender identity: 11 (1.5%)

No: 612 (82.4%)

A total of 90 participants (12.1%) were intersex. Additionally, 41 participants (5.5%) didn’t answer this question.

Of the intersex participants:

57.8% answered that being intersex affected their multigender identity

30.0% answered that they were unsure whether being intersex affected their multigender identity

12.2% answered that being intersex did not affect their multigender identity

Plurality

Participants were asked “Are you plural or part of a system?” The options provided were:

Yes, and it affects my multigender identity: 122 (16.4%)

Yes, and I am unsure if it affects my multigender identity: 63 (8.5%)

Yes, and it doesn’t affect my multigender identity: 53 (7.1%)

No: 470 (60.3%)

A total of 238 participants (32.0%) were plural or part of a system. Additionally, 35 participants (4.7%) didn’t answer this question. 

Of the participants who were plural or part of a system:

51.3% answered that being plural affected their multigender identity

26.5% answered that they were unsure whether being plural affected their multigender identity

22.3% answered that being plural did not affect their multigender identity