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cisgenderism

cisgenderism noun: attitudes or beliefs that privilege cisgender people or perspectives over transgender ones.

Noun

cisgenderism (uncountable)

  1. Attitudes or beliefs that privilege cisgender people or perspectives over transgender ones.
    • Confronting cisgenderism means asking our colleagues aloud why intersex babies' genitals are still being surgically altered at birth far below the age of informed consent, while women like Charlotte are routinely denied these surgeries.2016, Lyndsey Moon, Counselling Ideologies: Queer Challenges to Heteronormativity
    • Such assumptions can motivate expressions of cisgenderism such as retroactive misgendering (in which a person's past is described using language that disregards or contrasts with their current designation of their gender) […]2016, Abbie E. Goldberg, The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies, page 232

Origin of cisgenderism

From cisgender + -ism.

Questions about cisgenderism

What does cisgenderism mean?
Cisgenderism means attitudes or beliefs that privilege cisgender people or perspectives over transgender ones.
What part of speech is cisgenderism?
Cisgenderism is a noun.

Words near cisgenderism in the dictionary

  1. cisgay
  2. cisgender
  3. cisgendered
  4. cisgendereds
  5. cisgendering
  6. cisgenderism
  7. cisgenderist
  8. cisgenderists
  9. cisgenders
  10. cisgene
  11. cisgenes

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