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cissexist

cissexist adjective: exhibiting or related to cissexism.

Adjective

cissexist (comparative more cissexist, superlative most cissexist)

  1. Exhibiting or related to cissexism.
    • Living in this extraordinarily cissexist (and oppositionally sexist) world, transsexuals recognize cissexual privilege for what it is: a privilege.2007, Julie Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, Seal Press, →ISBN
    • It seems necessary to stress that there is a rather large gulf between the indeterminacy accorded trans subjects by the normative presumptions of cissexist culture and the self-identifications of trans people.2011, Em McAvan, “Rhetorics of Disgust and Indeterminacy in Transphobic Acts of Violence”, in Jes Battis, editor, Homofiles: Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies, Lexington Books, →ISBN, pages...

Noun

cissexist (plural cissexists)

  1. A person who exhibits cissexism.
    Synonyms:
    transphobe

Synonyms of cissexist

Forms of cissexist

Adjective
comparativemore cissexist
superlativemost cissexist
Noun
pluralcissexists

Origin of cissexist

From cis- + sexist or cissex(ual) + -ist.

Questions about cissexist

What does cissexist mean?
Cissexist means exhibiting or related to cissexism.
What part of speech is cissexist?
Cissexist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near cissexist in the dictionary

  1. cissed
  2. Cissell
  3. Cissells
  4. cisses
  5. cissexism
  6. cissexist
  7. cissexists
  8. cissexual
  9. cissexuality
  10. cissexually
  11. Cissi

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