While debating H.R. 1028, the “Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act” in the House Judiciary Committee on 3 February, Wyoming Republican Representative Harriet Hageman declared the term cisgender to be a “made-up word.” “Cisgender is a made-up word. That means nothing,” Hageman said. “Do not call me cisgender. I am a woman.” Rep. Hageman went on to declare that the term “epitomizes the Left’s ongoing effort to rewrite the English language in order to change the debate and destroy civil order.” Coined in 1994, cisgender is used to denote a person whose gender identity corresponds with the sex assigned to them at birth. #USPolitics #LGBTQIA #transgender #Wyoming #cisgender