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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

cissexism en · NOUN

Etymology

From cis- + sexism or cissex(ual) + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Bias or prejudice favouring cisgender people; transphobia.
    • In that context where cissexism and cissupremacy are the oppressions in question, a cisgender woman would not count as a marginalized person. 2016, Nora Berenstain, “Epistemic Exploitation”, in Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, volume 3, number 22, page 570:

Relateds

cissexist · cisgenderism

Translations (2)

fr cissexisme (Translations) · pl cisseksizm (Translations)