Some feminists reject the term ‘cis’ because they believe it implies that all cisgender women are comfortable with femininity, or that it minimizes the way millennia of patriarchy has imposed constraints on women in a sexist world. This is not my interpretation of the term. As I see it, a cisgender woman can be a gender-non-conforming woman who defies sexist norms but still wishes to be legally, socially and politically categorized as a woman.
