cissplaining en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) The act of condescendingly explaining transgender issues (as a cis person) to a trans person.
I often thought that as a straight, cisgender woman, maybe activism “wasn't my place” and certainly didn't want to fall into the trap of “cisplaining,” if you get my meaning.
2015, Victoria Lemay, "Allies must stand for trans teens", QNotes, 16 January 2015 - 29 January 2015, page 4Nowhere was cisplaining more evident than in gender identity clinics.
2021, Zoë Playdon, The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience, page 230:-For me what matters is whether they’d stop if I asked them, or whether I’d get this outburst of cisplaining!
2012, anonymous, "Discuss: LGBT Culture", No Definition (Cambridge Students' Union), Easter 2012, page 30
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fr cisplaining (Translations) · fr cisplication (Translations)