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cissexism

noun

Etymology

From cis- + sexism or cissex(ual) + -ism.

  1. derived from *séksus✻
  2. derived from *seksus✻
  3. derived from sexus — “gender; gender traits; males or females; genitals”
  4. derived from sexe — “genitals; gender”
  5. inherited from sexe — “sex 􂀿distinction between male and female􂁀 and gender”
  6. formed as sexism — “sex + -ism”
  7. formed as cissexism — “cis- + sexism”

Definitions

  1. Bias or prejudice favouring cisgender people

    Bias or prejudice favouring cisgender people; transphobia.

    • In that context where cissexism and cissupremacy are the oppressions in question, a cisgender woman would not count as a marginalized person.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cissexism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA