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ciswashed

ciswashed is the simple past and past participle of ciswash.

Meaning of ciswash

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

Questions about ciswashed

What is ciswashed the simple past and past participle of?
Ciswashed is the simple past and past participle of ciswash.

Words near ciswashed in the dictionary

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

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