Dictionary

cismasculinity en · NOUN

Etymology

From cis- + masculinity.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The state or quality of being cismasculine.
   • For 70 respondents (40 per cent), transmasculinity is unequivocally and qualitatively different from cismasculinity. 2016, matthew heinz, Entering Transmasculinity: The Inevitability of Discourse, unnumbered page
   • In addition, drag performance is not limited to expressions of cismasculinity or cisfemininity. 2021, Meredith Heller, “Drag Performativity”, in Abbie E. Goldberg, Genny Beemyn, editors, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies, unnumbered page:
   • […] what the production of a new, 'more disruptive' gender identity does is obscure the fact that cismasculinity and cisfemininity are themselves precarious, fluid and complicated. 2018, Rob Cover, Emergent Identities: New Sexualities, Genders and Relationships in a Digital Era, unnumbered page:

Forms

Coordinates

transmasculinity

Relateds

cismasculine

Translations (2)

fr cis-masculinité (Translations) · pl cismęskość (Translations)