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ciswash

UK/ˈsɪs.wɒʃ/

ciswash verb: to ignore, deny, or minimize the gender identity of a trans person or trans people, or the role that a trans person or trans people played in an event.

Verb

ciswash (third-person singular simple present ciswashes, present participle ciswashing, simple past and past participle ciswashed)

  1. (transitive) To ignore, deny, or minimize the gender identity of a trans person or trans people, or the role that a trans person or trans people played in an event.
    • Numerous media outlets recounted how the noble gays and lesbians fought that night – never mentioning trans folk… carrying on that long and painful tradition of ciswashing queer history – especially Stonewall history.2013 February 18, Cristan Williams, “Interview With an Actual Stonewall Riot Veteran: The Ciswashing of Stonewall Must End!”, in The Transadvocate
    • Throughout the 2-minute trailer, I watched the passionate and diverse history of our movement be whitewashed and ciswashed.2015, Matt Comer, "'Stonewall' film attracts criticism", QNotes, Volume 30, Number 8, 14 August 2015 - 27 August 2015, page 17

Forms of ciswash

third-person singular presentciswashes
present participleciswashing
past participleciswashed
pastciswashed

Origin of ciswash

From cis- + wash, by analogy with whitewash.

Questions about ciswash

What does ciswash mean?
Ciswash means to ignore, deny, or minimize the gender identity of a trans person or trans people, or the role that a trans person or trans people played in an event.
What part of speech is ciswash?
Ciswash is a verb.
How do you pronounce ciswash?
Ciswash is pronounced /ˈsɪs.wɒʃ/ (UK).
What is the past tense of ciswash?
The past tense of ciswash is ciswashed.

Words near ciswash in the dictionary

  1. cistvaens
  2. Cisuralian
  3. cisvestism
  4. cisvestite
  5. cisvestites
  6. ciswash
  7. ciswashed
  8. ciswashes
  9. ciswashing
  10. ciswoman
  11. ciswomen

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