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The term cisgender has its origin in the Latin-derived prefix cis-, meaning 'on this side of', which is the opposite of trans-, meaning 'across from' or 'on the other side of'.
The words “cisgender” and “cis” were targetted by Elon Musk on Twitter who condemned the gender-neutral terms as slurs. Here's the real definition.
Cisgenderism or cissexism is an ideology that challenges people's gender identities and thus leads to discrimination against gender variant people. It is systematic, and reflected in culture and the practices of legal authorities.
The term stealth refers to trans people who effectively pass as cisgender and do not disclose their gender history. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] People may also choose to be stealth in some parts of their lives and not others, such as being stealth at work but openly transgender amongst friends. [ 15 ]
The term has been around in Black American communities since the 1990s, appearing as early as 1992 on "It Was a Good Day" by Ice Cube, who raps: "No flexin', didn't even look in a n----'s direction."
Femboy (/ ˈ f ɛ m b ɔɪ / ⓘ) is a slang term that refers to males, usually cisgender, who express themselves with traditionally feminine behaviours, or—especially in the variant spelling femboi—to LGBTQ people of any gender identity who affect a "soft" masculine look. [1]
Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...
In 2012, sociologist Meredith Worthen coined the term hetero-cis-normativity [b] for this phenomenon: I identify hetero-cis-normativity as a system of norms, privilege, and oppression that organizes social power around sexual identity and gender identity whereby heterosexual cisgender people are situated above all others and thus, LGBTQ people ...