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cisgender

cisgender

1 6.8
A person whose sense of being a man or woman matches the sex given at birth
  • noun
  • /ˈsɪsˌdʒɛndər/
translation icon : cisgénero
  • The support group focuses on issues affecting both transgender and cisgender members.

Also, I might speak about male and female transgender as well and cisgender.

Examples

  • Tangentially: "cisgender" and "queermosexual" are my new favorite terms (neither quite manages to trump ambisextrous, but they at least tie for first).

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  • Many cisgender individuals may not understand the challenges faced by transgender people.

  • And so I would say this is an initial step to understand that category, the cisgender category.

  • Why would that answer make cisgender parents and non parents uncomfortable?

  • I call out the fact that cisgender queer people are treated differently than non cisgender queer people.

  • Other than last year, I'm a heteronormative cisgender white male, for which I apologize.

  • Other than last year, I'm a heteronormative cisgender white male, for which I apologize.

  • " Heterosexuals and cisgenders don't have to prove themselves, why do we?

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  • Cisgender people often benefit from societal privileges that transgender individuals do not.

Antonyms

transgender
71 5.9

Relating to people whose gender is different from the sex they were given at birth

Surface Forms

cisgender singular
cisgenders plural

Morphology

cisgender = gender (opaque) = cis + gender

The term uses the technical prefix cis- with gender, but the full social meaning is not directly predictable for most learners from the parts alone.

Etymology

Cisgender names a person whose gender matches the sex they were assigned at birth. It comes from the prefix cis- 'on this side', the opposite of trans- 'across', as in transport, so a cisgender person has the same gender and birth sex.