cisgender en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /sɪsˈdʒɛndə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /sɪsˈd͡ʒɛndɚ/ (General-American)
Etymology
From cis- (“on this side of”) + gender, by analogy with transgender. First attested in 1997. Compare slightly earlier cisgendered (1994).
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having a gender identity which matches the sex one was assigned at birth; or, pertaining to such people.
R. Moskowitz charges cisgender readers to be as conscious and deliberate with our religious identities as transgender and gender non-conforming people are with theirs, arguing that holiness is only achieved through continuous and unrelenting struggle and change.
2019, Rachel Timoner, “Book Review: Textual Activism by Rabbi Mike Moskowitz”, in Tikkun:As trans people, we have many cisgender allies—those who show their support for the concerns, needs, and rights of trans people, even though they may not personally face the same issues.
2014, Laura Erickson-Schroth, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, page 6:To uphold the inequality that we choose to engage in, we regularly present the myth that trans people are deviant or a danger to cisgender people.
2009 April 25, Renee Martin, The Guardian:Transgender people report discomfort with their birth sex and a strong identification with the opposite sex. The current study was designed to shed further light on the question of whether the brains of transgender people resemble their birth sex or their gender identity. For this purpose, we analyzed a sample of 24 cisgender men, 24 cisgender women, and 24 transgender women before gender-affirming hormone therapy. We employed a recently developed multivariate classifier that yields a continuous probabilistic (rather than a binary) estimate for brains to be male or female. The brains of transgender women ranged between cisgender men and cisgender women (albeit still closer to cisgender men), and the differences to both cisgender men and to cisgender women were significant (p = 0.016 and p < 0.001, respectively). These findings add support to the notion that the underlying brain anatomy in transgender people is shifted away from their biological sex towards their gender identity.
2022 March, Florian Kurth, Christian Gaser, Francisco J. Sánchez, Eileen Luders, “Brain Sex in Transgender Women Is Shifted towards Gender Identity”, in Journal of Clinical Medicine, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2022, Abstract:Gender assumed many roles in this pandemic. Cisgender men were more likely to die from the virus, which seemed to be about inherent vulnerabilities of those with XY chromosomes.
2020 April 17, Rebecca Solnit, “Coronavirus does discriminate, because that’s what humans do”, in The Guardian:
Antonyms
Coordinates
genderfluid · bigender · genderqueer · agender · third gender · ambigender · non-binary · gender-free · transgender
Deriveds
cisgenderist · non-cisgender · cissy · cis · cisgenderism
Hyponyms
Relateds
cissexual · cis female · cishet · cis- · cisphobic · intersex · cis person · cisphobia · cis male · cis woman · cis · cis man
Synonyms
cisgendered · nontransgender · nontrans
Translations (31)
pl cispłciowy (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · ta சிஸ் (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · ko 시스젠더 (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · la cisgenus (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · de cisgeschlechtlich (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · fr cisgenre (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · cmn 順性別 /顺性别 (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · pt cisgênero (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · es cisgénero (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · vi hợp giới (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · ne त्याचलैङ्गिक व्यक्ति (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · pl cisseksualny (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · de cis-gender (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · fr cissexuel (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · de cis (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · de cisgender (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · hu cisznemű (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · de zisgeschlechtlich (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · fi cissukupuolinen (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · el σιστζέντερ (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · da ciskønnet (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · eo cisgenra (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · ja シスジェンダー (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · new थातंमि (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · pt cisgénero (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · ru циссексуа́льный (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · oc cisgènere (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · ru цисге́ндерный (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · de zissexuell (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · ar مُتَوَافِق الجِنْس (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth) · ca cisgènere (having a gender the same as one's assigned sex at birth)