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I come up with the best ideas only when I'm extremely sleep deprived

https://strawpoll.com/1MnwOW2G5n7

I will share the final results in a few days, probably on Friday

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[–] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Excuse my ignorance but what's the difference between straight and cis?

[–] Suspicious@lemmy.wtf 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Straight = heterosexual, Cis (short for cisgender) = someone who identifys with the gender assigned to them at birth i.e. anyone who is not transgender

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Why the downvotes? Schools in lots of places don't teach LGBT+ vocabulary and not everyone is interested enough to look it up. Many have never needed to answer anything other than "male/female/other" for gender, and very few people use the word "cis" to identify themselves, so it's OK to not know ithe term.

Edit: my school was rather progressive but I still can't remember being taught the term “cis” in sex ed at 12 years old and I only found out when I started seeing LGBT+ memes online and became an ally 5 years later.

Another reason why the poll I suggested in the previous comment is better.

[–] euphoric_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 years ago

one is an orientation the other is a gender identity

[–] akariii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

you ignorance (non derogatory) is excused, but only because you didn't know

/joke