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Cisgender vs Cisnormativity - What's the difference?

cisgender | cisnormativity |

As an adjective cisgender

is 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.

As a noun cisnormativity is

the assumption that a normal person's gender identity is the same as their sex assigned at birth.

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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    cisnormativity

    English

    Noun

  • (LGBT, neologism) The assumption that a normal person's gender identity is the same as their sex assigned at birth.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 2012 , author = Matthew Heinz , chapter = Transmen on the Web: Inscribing Multiple Discourses , editor = Karen Ross , title = The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media , publisher = John Wiley & Sons , isbn = 9781444338546 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=C3cL-p2DLIMC&pg=PA336&dq=%22cisnormativity%22 , page = 336 , passage = The erasure of transpeople's experiences can be understood, at least partially, as a function of the hegemony of cisnormativity . }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 2012 , month = Fall , author = Einar Ragnar Jónsson , url = http://issuu.com/bluestockingsmagazine/docs/final_scribd_layout , title = Why Feminism Needs to be Trans-Inclusive or: The Bodily Consequences of Cisnormativity , magazine = Bluestockings , page = 41 , passage = These are the bodily consequences of cisnormativity —the prevalent and presumptuous assumption that cissexuality is the only acceptable and legible form of gender identity—which show us why, when we engage in feminist activism and inquiry, we must be trans-inclusive in our efforts to ensure that every human being deserves decency and justice when wronged. }}
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    • Derived terms

    * cisnormative

    Coordinate terms

    * heteronormativity

    See also

    * cissexism