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cishet en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /ˈsɪs.hɛt/ (UK, US)

Etymology

From cis- + het.

Meanings

1. (informal, not-comparable) Cisgender and heterosexual.
   • Even in death, the way we are spoken about by the mainstream cishet world is traumatizing and violent. Even in death, trans women of color cannot escape the trauma of colonialism and genocide. 2013, "Witchymorgan", "On the Labor Movement and Transmisogyny", Black & Pink, May 2013, page 4
   • […] it reinforces the problematic notion that 'true' feminism belongs to cishet white abled feminists; […] 2014, Bec Eames, "In defence of unattractive feminism", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Semester 1, Week 12, page 17
   • While children can be born to any kind of parent and situation, unless drastic measures are taken, they will be raised in an overwhelmingly cisgendered and heterosexual (cishet) world. Cishet children and adults’ identities are affirmed by media, legal documents, population majority, history and other depictions of assumed cis-ness and heterosexuality. 2013, Ariel Estrella, "Hegemony, heteronormativity and amoeba", The Mac Weekly (Macalester College), 18 October 2013

Forms

Synonyms

cishetero · cisheterosexual

Translations (5)

pt cis-hétero (cisgender and heterosexual) · cmn 順直 /顺直 (cisgender and heterosexual) · pl cishet (cisgender and heterosexual) · cmn 順異 /顺异 (cisgender and heterosexual) · fr cishet (cisgender and heterosexual)

cishet en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /ˈsɪs.hɛt/ (UK, US)

Etymology

From cis- + het.

Meanings

1. (informal) A cisgender and heterosexual person.
   • I don't fuck with cishets / I look so good in fishnets 2020, “cishets (i don't want it at all)”, in Fraxiom (lyrics), umru (music), Feeling Cool And Normal, performed by Fraxiom:
   • Last weekend I was on Facebook taking part in a conversation about dating sites when someone called me a cishet, in a sneering tone. 2013, Anonymous letter-writer quoted in Maureen Matthews, "About last night", The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 October 2013
   • People who identify as cisgender and heterosexual, or cishets, are certainly more privileged in today’s society than the LGBTQIA+ community — which includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer-identified, intersex, and asexual people, as well as others who do not identify as cishet people. 2014 July 5, Anthony Speciyogic, “Burger King Pride Campaign Claims ‘We’re All The Same Inside’”, in Inquisitr:

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