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Cisgender vs Gay - What's the difference?

cisgender | gay |

As an adjective 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.

As a noun gay is

nape.

As a verb gay is

to crow.

cisgender

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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

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    gay

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    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person.
  • from the word gay, "joyful"; rare today.
  • . Also a shortened form of Gabriel, Gaylord and similar names, or transferred from the surname.
  • * 1992 , Unto the Sons , Ballantine Books 1993, ISBN 0804110336, page 15
    • - - - my father's father, Gaetano Talese ( whose name I inherited after my birth in 1932, in the anglicized from of "Gay "), was an atypically fearless traveler,
  • * 2004 , Bad Dirt , Fourth Estate, ISBN 0007196911, page 32
    • "Mr Gay Brawls. What a name."
    "It didn't use to mean what it means now. Plenty were named Gay'. Even in Nevada. Was old ' Gay Pitch had a gas station in Winnemucca. Nobody thought nothin about it and he raised a railroad car of kids.- - -

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