Revelatory

This I thought was excellent. I had to look up the word cishet, and it means “an abbreviation of cisgendered or cissexual heterosexual: a person that identifies as the sex they were born as, and are attracted to people of the sex opposite of theirs, who are also usually cisgendered or cissexual.” 

So cisgendered is a word for people who identify as being of their own born physical body. That seems to equate to, for example, having a word to describe an elephant who identifies as being an elephant rather than some other creature. It would I’m sure be an act of great kindness, rather than say fostering confusion, to offer procedures for such an elephant to actually become this other animal they identify as, you know, through cutting off bits and pieces, administering certain drugs and so on, and so then this ‘elephant’ who doesn’t identify as an elephant, truly could become, or at least feel convinced they are, for example, a zebra. It might then, as a follow-on, be helpful to have a word for a zebra who was born as a zebra and who identifies as a zebra, to help distinguish it from the zebra who was born an elephant. 

To add, it is not implied that the born zebra should feel shame at his or her conventionality in remaining trapped in the body it was born as. If the zebra is content, through for example social conditioning, to continue to identify as a zebra, then who are we to judge?