1. cisgender - Noun
2. cisgender - Adjective
cisgender (not comparable)
Having a gender identity which matches the sex one was assigned at birth; or, pertaining to such people.
Synonyms: (uncommon) cisgendered, nontrans, nontransgender
Antonym: non-cisgender
cisgender (plural cisgenders)
A cisgender person.
I mention the number of women in Barbie as Rapunzel’s credits, and say to Woll how many studios still struggle with hiring and retaining workers who aren’t cisgender men. Source: Internet
A cisgender person is someone who feels (at least mostly) comfortable in the gender that they were assigned at birth. Source: Internet
Kristen Stewart has weighed in on the ongoing controversy over straight, cisgender actors playing LGBTQ roles, calling it a “slippery slope” to require lived experience in order to portray a character. Source: Internet
They betray a kind of cognitive dissonance, as if a fractured narrative was most relevant to a cisgender, heterosexual male, and not actually more applicable to the lives of the transgressive and oppressed. Source: Internet
I understood that Spelman was a historically women’s college so interest seemingly lies mostly with cisgender lesbians, but I knew that the Spelman community consisted of so much more than that. Source: Internet
It’s not surprising that as ever-greater numbers of children publicly express gender-nonconforming and trans identities, there will be stories of some who live as trans and then re-transition back to cisgender identities. Source: Internet