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In February 2014, Facebook began offering "custom" gender options, allowing users to identify with one or more gender-related terms from a selected list, including cis, cisgender, and others.Cisgender was also added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2015, defined as "designating a person whose sense of personal identity corresponds to the sex and gender assigned to him or her at birth (in contrast with transgender)". The prefixes and suffixes of the word trans- has changed a lot in the English language, but it has stayed the same in the scientific world. According to McGill, "If both of your feet are on the same side of a line, they are in the cis configuration. Move one of them across the line and you have achieved the trans configuration." The meaning of the word trans and cis do not change in the scientific part as much as the English definition. Perspectives on History has stated that since this inclusion, the term cisgender has increasingly become common usage. The Merriam Webster definition of Cisgender is, "of, relating to, or being a person whose gender identity corresponds with the sex the person had or was identified as having at birth". Transgender studies Quarterly has stated that cisgender can describe someone who, "from birth and into adulthood, the male or female reproductive organs (sex) typical of the social category of man or woman (gender) to which that individual was assigned at birth." When the word cisgender is used appropriately, it can help reduce the norms surronded by the word "cisgender"

Planned Parenthood has its own version of defining cisgender. Their definition of cisgender is, "Most people who are assigned female at birth identify as girls or women, and most people who are assigned male at birth identify as boys or men. These people are cisgender (or cis)"

Use of the term cisgender has at times been controversial. Novelist John Boyne rejected the use of the term cisgender in an article in The Irish Times. He considers himself not as a cis man, but as just a man. He argues that one person should not "force an unwanted term onto another". Transgender studies Quarterly has argued that cisgender still keeps some of the "normalizing implications that “nontransgender” possessed". Cisgender can be seen as the more positive way of saying and describing someone who identifies as a non trans identity. Cisgender can be seen as a word that can be used in a positve way to equally identify someone as "sexed and gendered beings"

Cisgender started to grow more in sexuality studies classrooms in 2008 and "peer-reviewed publications in 2009". The studies of cisgender in sexuality and gender studies has been under, "intense critical scrutiny". There is common replacements for these words such as, "sex at birth include sex, sex assignment, sex assignment at birth, gender assignment, and gender assignment at birth"