Cisgender

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Some [[queer theory|queer theorists]] describe it as preferable to "gender-normative," which has the same effective meaning as "cisgender" but implies a normative gender role for both [[sex]]es.
 
Some [[queer theory|queer theorists]] describe it as preferable to "gender-normative," which has the same effective meaning as "cisgender" but implies a normative gender role for both [[sex]]es.
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==Etymology==
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The term was created by analogy to trans and cis forms in organic chemistry; ''trans'' is of course Latin for "across from", and ''cis'' means "on the same side".
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A few very strange people have [[pseudolinguistics|tried to link it to]] "-cide" (as in homicide, genocide, gendercide); this suffix comes from the same root as Latin ''caedere'' "cut, kill" and is not believed to be related to ''cis'', which is a preposition.
  
 
==Related terms==
 
==Related terms==

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Cisgender is an adjective indicating that a person or people identifies with the gender assigned to them at birth. It is a neologism coined as the antonym to "transgender," and its first documented usage was on the Internet in 1994.[1]

Some queer theorists describe it as preferable to "gender-normative," which has the same effective meaning as "cisgender" but implies a normative gender role for both sexes.

Contents

Etymology

The term was created by analogy to trans and cis forms in organic chemistry; trans is of course Latin for "across from", and cis means "on the same side".

A few very strange people have tried to link it to "-cide" (as in homicide, genocide, gendercide); this suffix comes from the same root as Latin caedere "cut, kill" and is not believed to be related to cis, which is a preposition.

Related terms

  • Cissexism, the belief that cisgender people are superior to transgender people.
  • Cisgender privilege, the queer-theory analogue to male privilege, white privilege, able-bodied privilege, bourgeois-oppressor privilege, etc.

See also

Footnotes

  1. Dana Leland Defosse (1994-05-26). "Transgender Research". Posted on alt.transgendered newsgroup.
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