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Cisgender vs Cisnormative - What's the difference?

cisgender | cisnormative |

As adjectives the difference between cisgender and cisnormative

is that cisgender is (lgbt|of a person) identifying with or experiencing a gender the same as one's biological sex or that is affirmed by society, eg being both male-gendered and male-sexed while cisnormative is (lgbt|neologism) of or pertaining to cisnormativity.

cisgender

English

Adjective

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  • (LGBT, of a person) Identifying with or experiencing a gender the same as one's biological sex or that is affirmed by society, e.g. being both male-gendered and male-sexed.

    • Synonyms

    * cisgendered

    Antonyms

    * transgender * ambigender * ungendered * bigender * agender * third gender * genderqueer * genderfluid

    Related terms

    * cis * cissexual * cisman, cisperson, ciswoman * cisfemale, cismale * cisphobia

    Anagrams

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    cisnormative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (LGBT, neologism) Of or pertaining to cisnormativity.
  • * 2009 , Greta R. Bauer, Rebecca Hammond, Robb Travers, Matthias Kaay, Karin M. Hohenadel, & Michelle Boyce, " 'I Don't Think This Is Theoretical; This Is Our Lives': How Erasure Impacts Health Care for Transgender People", Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care , Volume 20, Issue 5, September-October 2009, page 353:
    • This erasure reflects the priorities, biases, and oversights of writers and publishers who function in a cisnormative system, one in which people are assumed to be cissexual.
  • * 2012 , Jen Roberton & Emily Milton, " Cisnormative assumptions and queer sex", The Strand (Victoria University), Volume 55, Issue 5, 29 October 2012, page 4:
    • Cisnormative assumptions are tied in with discourses surrounding HIV and STIs.
  • * 2013 , Bailey Dineen, " My Queer Rage", The Cornell Daily Sun (Cornell University), Volume 130, Number 34, 11 October 2013, page 7:
    • In a cisnormative world, I could not comprehend the humiliation I felt, at eight years old, when I received a “girl” bike for Christmas, because everything around me reflected the experiences of people for whom the color of their bike somehow aligned with their genitalia.
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