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by ams6110 3975 days ago
I had never heard the term "cissexual" before. I don't really see why it's needed.
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> I had never heard the term "cissexual" before. I don't really see why it's needed.

Because people who aren't transsexual exist, and it sometimes is useful to refer to the group of people sharing that characteristic, and its more convenient to do so by a term that doesn't involve the negation of another trait.