Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Identifying as having a gender that corresponds to the sex one has been assigned at birth; not transgender.
- adjective Of or relating to cisgender people.
- noun A person who is cisgender.
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- adjective LGBT, of a person Identifying with or experiencing a
gender the same as one's biologicalsex or that is affirmed by society, e.g. being both male-gendered and male-sexed.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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On the other hand, with transgender I was generally thinking of people changing their gender identity from what is was at an earlier point, but then I started thinking about the intersexed, and in reading your post a while back I think you used the term cisgender SP.
Trans Identity–Sex Changes, Race Changes, Drag, and Passing 2006
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So distinguishing between cissexual and cisgender is important, and maybe saying cis when you mean cissexual blurs the boundaries a bit.
Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What 2009
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I think we’re underrepresented in cisgender queer theory, cisgender “third gender” anthropology, and armchair feminism, that those fields reify this gender-non-conforming/third-gender/gender-non-binary/whatever deal, and that subversivist communities look down on transsexual women (and sometimes men).
Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What 2009
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I’m leery of it in some ways, because part of my issue with the inaccuracy of cisgender is that it privileges gender identification more than anything.
Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What 2009
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But I and many transwomen have a major problem with peeps ignorantly calling cisgender women 'trannies' to be insulting.
Archive 2009-03-01 Renee 2009
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When your body and gender identity are aligned you exist with what is known as cisgender privilege.
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Stop calling cisgender women 'tranny' to insult them.
Archive 2009-03-01 Renee 2009
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Nowhere does it shine more brightly than with this bullshit in gossip blogs and elsewhere on the Net of calling cisgender women that you're either jealous of, are over 5' 7 or have some androgynous features transwomen as an insult.
I Repeat-Quit Using ‘Tranny” To Insult Cisgender Women Renee 2009
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Nowhere does it shine more brightly than with this bullshit in gossip blogs and elsewhere on the Net of calling cisgender women that you're either jealous of, are over 5' 7 or have some androgynous features transwomen as an insult.
Archive 2009-03-01 Renee 2009
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When your body and gender identity are aligned you exist with what is known as cisgender privilege.
Archive 2009-04-01 Renee 2009
john commented on the word cisgender
“I have, for some time, been referring to a particularly irritating brand of privileged semi-feminism as “Liz Lemonism.” I associate this brand of feminism with a certain variety of white, coastal-city dwelling, fairly well-to-do heterosexual cisgendered woman, a woman with a comfortable white-collar job that is so very comfortable and so very white-collar that she is free to spend her spare time yearning for, and semi-believing that she could attain, something with more “meaning.”
Tiger Beatdown, 13 Ways of Looking at Liz Lemon, by Sady, March 24, 2010
March 31, 2010
vendingmachine commented on the word cisgender
Aimee Toms was washing her hands in the women’s bathroom at Walmart in Danbury Friday when a stranger approached her and said, “You’re disgusting!” and “You don’t belong here!”
Toms’ has a short haircut because she recently donated hair - for the third time - to a program that makes wigs for child cancer patients.
“I’ve had people call me all sorts of names for having short hair. I’ve had people call me a boy, I’ve had people call me a dyke, I’ve had people call me gay.” Toms said. “I’m grateful that that woman only called me disgusting and didn’t physically attack me … I was a victim of transphobia today as a cisgender female because my hair is short.”
-Woman mistaken for transgender harassed in Walmart bathroom, May 16, 2016
May 25, 2016