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Cisgender () is an adjective neologism that means non-transgender. In other words, a cisgender woman is someone who was physiologically female at birth, raised as a girl, and who identifies as a woman. In contrast, a transgender woman is someone who was physiologically male at birth, raised as a boy, and who identifies as a woman. That is, it provides a name for a gender identity that society considers to match or be appropriate for the sex it perceives a person to be.[1] The issue of cisgender and transgender is complicated by the fact that the sex of an infant at birth is not based on a simple dichotomy of "male" or "female", as people are also born intersex. Gender assignment and identification do not automatically match either end of the gender range, and thus do not apply to all people.