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cissupremacy

cissupremacy noun: ideology that regards cis people as superior to other people (including trans people, nonbinary people, and genderfluid people), or diminishes the rights or interests of those who are not cis.

Noun

cissupremacy (uncountable)

  1. (neologism) Ideology that regards cis people as superior to other people (including trans people, nonbinary people, and genderfluid people), or diminishes the rights or interests of those who are not cis.
    • To fight this systemic oppression — including transphobia, cis-centrism, cis-supremacy and trans-misogyny — it is essential we support the self-determination of all people oppressed by coercive, non-consensual gender assignments.2012, “OWS Must Resist Cis-Supremacy and Trans-Misogyny”, in Amy Schrager Lang, Daniel Lang/Levitsky, editors, Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement, page 129
    • Cisgender directors and writers cannot be the judge of what an authentic trans portrayal looks like because of their socialization in cis­supremacy.2015, Aryeh Conrad, "Towards a Truer Representation: Transphobic Casting Politics and the Cis-Gaze in Film", paper submitted to the University of Puget Sound, page 10
  2. Behavior (individual or systemic) in which cis people are privileged over other people in society (trans people, nonbinary people, genderfluid people).

Forms of cissupremacy

alternative formcis-supremacy

Origin of cissupremacy

From cis- + supremacy, by analogy with white supremacy.

Questions about cissupremacy

What does cissupremacy mean?
Cissupremacy means ideology that regards cis people as superior to other people (including trans people, nonbinary people, and genderfluid people), or diminishes the rights or interests of those who are not cis.
What part of speech is cissupremacy?
Cissupremacy is a noun.

Words near cissupremacy in the dictionary

  1. cissplainers
  2. cissplaining
  3. cissplains
  4. CISSPs
  5. cissupremacist
  6. cissupremacy
  7. cissus
  8. cissuses
  9. cissy
  10. cist
  11. CISTA

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