Which makes sense (the term is bandied about socially for various populations), but is also important.
Something that's changed in the past half-century is an understanding of the hidden power (often problematic) in having an unnamed "normal" vs a named "something other than normal." Even when the norm is named, it can still an issue (when the name is not used except in exceptional circumstances), but giving it a name, rather than a default THIS IS WHAT IS status is an important step in consideration of diversity vs deviancy.
I don't expect people to use "cisgendered" in everyday conversation (at least I don't see it coming up in most of the conversations I have), but it's good to have the term, I think, when the discussion of gender issues comes up.
On the other hand, I'd just as soon the OED didn't have call to include "twerk" and "Fo'shizzle" in their lexicon, but one can't have everything.
The OED’s Recognition of Cisgender Is a Useful Reminder: Everyone Has a Gender Identity
While Friday marked a historic victory for the LGBTQ community, it turns out there’s another advancement to celebrate: Last week, the Oxford English Dictionary released a list of 500 new entries, and among the more notable additions was cisgender. The word—which is defined as “designating a person whose sense of personal identity matches their gender at…
Thanks for sharing this.
I actually think a lot about my gender identity and expression, even though I'm cisgender, because I don't tend to behave and present in a way that's particularly masculine or particularly feminine. I've never felt like anything other than a woman, but I've always been aware that gender is a complicated beastie. It's nice to have the language to discuss that more precisely.