ciswashing
ciswashing is the present participle and gerund of ciswash.
Meaning of ciswash
Verb
ciswash (third-person singular simple present ciswashes, present participle ciswashing, simple past and past participle ciswashed)
- 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 ciswashing
- What is ciswashing the present participle and gerund of?
- Ciswashing is the present participle and gerund of ciswash.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ciswashing (page history and authors); ciswash (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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