If you're cis, I'd like you to read this article and learn that Missouri is about to enact a full ban on transition healthcare for transgender people. The deadline is April 27.

No cisgender person I've shared this with has had any idea that this is a ban, not a regulation - the requirements are impossible to meet.

I would also ask that you share this information with three other cis people today, preferably ones in or near #Missouri .

Thank you. (Update: The ban is temporarily restrained until July 24, with a new hearing about a preliminary injunction on July 20. The ban cannot be implemented until then. But the Missouri GOP is determined to ban youth trans care and sports participation, and keep allowing literal children to get married.) (Update late May: The Missouri legislature ended trans healthcare coverage for ALL minors, all people on Medicaid, and all incarcerated people. This is an absolute disaster - it means that all anyone needs to do to restrict trans healthcare for paying adults is to declare us criminals - but it is at least not a flagrant violation of the lawmaking process like Bailey's "emergency rule" was.)

https://gizmodo.com/missouri-trans-gender-affirming-care-ban-adults-order-1850337858

Emergency Rule Seriously Restricts Trans Health Care For Adults, Minors in Missouri

Via a sweeping emergency rule, the state's Attorney General has made it nearly impossible for trans people in Missouri to receive standard medical treatment.

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@holyramenempire What is “cis” ? I know what trans is.

@MiMi1026 @holyramenempire

Cis is short for "cisgender". A cisgender person agrees with the sex they were assigned at birth. A transgender person does not.

@MiMi1026 @holyramenempire

If you don't know what "cis" is, then you don't know that "trans" may often be used as short for "Transgender" but it is really a Latin prefix meaning 'the other side of', and "cis" is another antonym prefix, "this side of".
https://www.etymonline.com/word/cis-
The most frequent use until recently was Roman historical discussion of "cisalpine Gaul" versus "transalpine Gaul", for the Italian versus French side of the alps. Also used a lot in Chemistry:
https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Introductory_Chemistry/Basics_of_General_Organic_and_Biological_Chemistry_(Ball_et_al.)/13%3A_Unsaturated_and_Aromatic_Hydrocarbons/13.02%3A_Cis-Trans_Isomers_(Geometric_Isomers)

cis- | Meaning of prefix cis- by etymonline

CIS- Meaning: "on the near side of, on this side," from Latin preposition cis "on this side" (in reference to place or… See origin and meaning of cis-.

@MiMi1026 @holyramenempire

Oh, and if you recall that "Sylvan" is a Latin word meaning "The woods", then you can see that the Romans were referring to the "Land on the Other Side of the Woods", for Dracula's home in Transylvania.

Cannot confirm whether they called eastern Hungary "Cisylvania"...

@RoyBrander @holyramenempire I know😉 just want other peoples opinions🧐dumb like a fox.