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cisgenderist

cisgenderist adjective: relating to or characterized by cisgenderism ("attitudes or beliefs that privilege cisgender people or perspectives over transgender ones").

Adjective

cisgenderist (comparative more cisgenderist, superlative most cisgenderist)

  1. Relating to or characterized by cisgenderism ("attitudes or beliefs that privilege cisgender people or perspectives over transgender ones").
    • Their results showed that cisgenderist language is commonplace in professional communications between psychologists about children who self-defined their gender, that the most pathologizing language is found in literature by mental health professionals, and that those most closely tied to the most...2014, Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, Feminist Research Practice: A Primer, 2nd edition, Los Angeles, C.A. […]: SAGE, →ISBN, page 63

Noun

cisgenderist (plural cisgenderists)

  1. One who believes in or advocates for cisgenderism.
    • Real gender self-determination would lead only to more 'legal men with wombs' and 'legal women with meat penises' – and persons of uncertain gender and unreadable bodies, leaving cisgenderists without a 'panic' defence.2019 November 27, Grietje Baars, “Queer Cases Unmake Gendered Law, Or, Fucking Law's Gendering Function”, in The Australian Feminist Law Journal, volume 45, number 1, Victoria: Routledge, →DOI...

Forms of cisgenderist

Adjective
comparativemore cisgenderist
superlativemost cisgenderist
Noun
pluralcisgenderists

Origin of cisgenderist

From cisgender + -ist.

Questions about cisgenderist

What does cisgenderist mean?
Cisgenderist means relating to or characterized by cisgenderism ("attitudes or beliefs that privilege cisgender people or perspectives over transgender ones").
What part of speech is cisgenderist?
Cisgenderist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near cisgenderist in the dictionary

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

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