cisgender
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1. cisgender - Noun
2. cisgender - Adjective
Meaning
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.
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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.
A cisgender person is someone who feels (at least mostly) comfortable in the gender that they were assigned at birth.
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.
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.
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.
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.