I honestly don’t like it. Like out of nowhere I was hearing this word and it was a label the LGBTQ decided to give us, for what? I don’t know
Why just limit your question to cis woman when there are also cis man?
Because I’m a woman I don’t know how men feel about it
Somehow I don’t think the shadow council of women is entirely responsible for this term.
The prefixes “cis” and “trans” are from Latin: “this side of” and “the other side of”, they are opposites and have been used in chemistry for decades.
Cis is a Latin prefix that is the opposite of the Latin prefix trans, so it makes sense to use it for people who identify as their gender assigned at birth.
It’s been used for centuries, just not necessarily for orientation. It comes from Latin, just like “trans” does.
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history-general-science/word-cisgender-has-scientific-roots
Probably somewhere around the time they realized referring to themselves as “actual women” was not a particularly inclusive, or kind, look.