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Wiktionary

  1. adj. LGBT, of a person Identifying with or experiencing a gender the same as one's biological sex or that is affirmed by society, e.g. being both male-gendered and male-sexed.

Etymologies

  1. From cis- +‎ gender, by analogy with transgender. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “Stop calling cisgender women 'tranny' to insult them.”

    Archive 2009-03-01

  • “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

  • “When your body and gender identity are aligned you exist with what is known as cisgender privilege.”

    Archive 2009-04-01

  • “But I and many transwomen have a major problem with peeps ignorantly calling cisgender women 'trannies' to be insulting.”

    Archive 2009-03-01

  • “It is estimated that today in America a person perceived to be transgender has a one in twelve chance of being murdered, whereas a non-transgender person also known as a cisgender person has a one in eighteen-thousand chance of being murdered.”

    Archive 2005-11-01

  • “The first chapter, "An Introduction to Trans Terms and Concepts," offers a glossary to explain both the past and current uses of concepts such as cisgender privilege, gender identity, genderqueer identity, and a host of other essential terms.”

    Archive 2009-07-01

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  • john “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 Mar 31, 2010

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