Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Transgender vs transgendered/reply (15)

I'm not sure I accept the trans-cis binary as valid. Some degree of gender dysphoria is not uncommon. Only when it reaches a certain degree does it result in one doing or saying anything which would lead one to be labelled as trans. Just because people don't in any outwardly obvious way identify as trans, doesn't mean they are completely cis either. I think we need three categories: (1) those with a high degree of discomfort with their birth gender (classic trans), (2) those with some degree of discomfort, but not (or at least not presently) sufficiently strong to result in a classic trans identity or behaviour, (3) those with little or no gender discomfort, i.e. classic cis. Maybe we should add another category for those who really don't care what gender they are - to me, there is a distinction between actively cis (I really like being my current gender, and certainly would not want to be any other) vs passively cis (my gender is whatever my gender happens to be, but I really couldn't care what it is). I think people in category (2) find the whole trans/cis distinction confusing, since neither really fits them, although outwardly most people will see them as cis (except maybe for those few in whom they've confided their confusions...)