If any of these descriptions ring true for you, perhaps you may be wondering if the "transspirit" monicker could apply to you in some way. Click on "Could I be a transspirit?" to check. The link will take you to a simple unscientific 10-item quiz. Your responses to the questions will posit you along a continuum from possible cis to trans convention orientation.
How am I trans-religious?
I'm a paragraph.
Cis-religious, by contrast
From the perspective of cis-political getting-things-done, my trans-political orientation may appear as if I am political apathetic, naively apolitical, passively benefiting from cis-political activists,
A Cis-Trans Continuum
Cis-identity and trans-identity fall along a continuum, with these two salient modalities.
Not the same as transgender. Many transgender people are cis-identity, while many cisgender people are trans-identity. These appear to be among the strongest allies to the transgender population.
Cis-binary transgender people (who transition from their birth ascribed gender to the normatively opposite gender) appear to often be cis-identity
A Cis-Trans Matrix
Cis-identity and trans-identity fall along a continuum, with these two salient modalities.
Some ups and downs of being a transspirit
UP
Enhanced intuition
DOWN
misfit, scapegoat
trans-sexual
trans-epistemological
trans-*
Transspirit Dimensions
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<cis-ethnic>
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<cis-religious>
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<cis-political>
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<cis-judicial>
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<cis-economic>
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Transspirit =someone who intuitively experiences a deep sense of connection across spectra of human potential, resulting in transcending or transgressing conventional barriers that potentially limits full potential.
GENDER
gender norm conformity
gender norm deviance
TRANS-GENDER
CIS-GENDER
cis-binary=experience gender always within the given gender binary.
re-cis-binary=experience gender again within the given gender binary.
trans-binary=experience gender outside the given gender binary.
TRANS-RELIGIOUS
CIS-RELIGIOUS
RELIGION
religious norm conformity
religious norm deviance
trans-modal =outside any given religion/faith identity, yet still spiritual.
re-cis-modal=identified with one religioun/faith but then changed to identifying with a different religion/faith.
cis-modal =always identified within the given faith/religious modality.
TRANS-POLITICAL
POLITICS
political norms conformity
political norms deviance
trans-modal =outside any given political identity or affiliation.
re-cis-modal=identified with one political modality, then changed to identifying with a different political modality.
cis-modal =always identified within the given political modality.
CIS-POLITICAL
TRANS-JUDICIAL
CIS-JUDICIAL
JUSTICE
judicial norms deviance
judicial norms conformity
trans-modal =challenge all norms of the adversarial justice system.
re-cis-modal=iquestioning some norms of the adversarial justice system but agreeing with others.
cis-modal =continually subscribing to the norms of the adversarial justice system.
TRANS-ECONOMIC
CIS-ECONOMIC
ECONOMICS
economic norms deviance
economic norms conformity
trans-modal =question all norms of mainstream economic system.
re-cis-modal=ichallenging some but following other norms of the mainstream economic system.
cis-modal =consistently going along with all norms of the mainstream economic system.