We have a good friend (a trans woman) who is having surgery in Thailand later this year, and she has to be in the hospital for 2 months. I can't even imagine it. (But then, obviously, the fact that I can't imagine it is because I'm cisgender to the core.)

Anyway, she has boob implants, and has for a while. The biggie comes later. And good god damn, it is expensive.

(But then, obviously, the fact that I can't imagine it is because I'm cisgender to the core.)

Yeah, me too. I find it hard to wrap my head around it all.

What is cisgender? Zero on the Kinsey scale? I have no trouble with being a woman physically, but I sometimes wonder if my brain is more male than female.

If i understandit right, cisgender means you don't feel that you are not the gender you were born as.

cis= gender identity matches biological sex.

What is cisgender?

From chemistry, I think -- "trans" means "opposite" and "cis" means same side. I think in chemistry it's used for molecular structures.

Zero on the Kinsey scale?

Kinsey scale is the hetero-bi-homosexual continuum, which is separate from gender.

From chemistry, I think -- "trans" means "opposite" and "cis" means same side. I think in chemistry it's used for molecular structures.

Right. Chemistry took it from Latin.

And even though they are often associated with each other, gender identity does not have to do with sexuality, right? (Does that even make sense? Good God. I've replaced Steph as The Most Vanilla.)

Aims, that's correct. I was just flipping through Wikipedia and discovered terms like androsexual and gynosexual, which leave your own gender out of the equation.

Is there a scale for androgyny? What is the opposite of androgyny? Gendered?