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cissexual

adj

Etymology

From cis- + sexual, by analogy with transsexual, after the slightly earlier (1991) German zissexuell.

  1. borrowed from sexuālis
  2. prefixed as cissexual — “cis + sexual”

Definitions

  1. Having a gender identity which matches one's birth sex

    Having a gender identity which matches one's birth sex; for example, identifying as male and having (been born with) male genitalia.

    • That we are working on the grounds of ontology seems clear, since the “actually” begins from a cissexual primal origin birth moment that cannot be changed but only concealed—Angie is “biologically” once-and-forever Justin.
    • Ungendering is the process by which cissexual people start to look for details or evidence that the trans person is no longer living in his/her birth gender.
    • Comfort is a cissexual privilege, ascribed to those who identify with and are socially and institutionally recognizable as the sex they were assigned at birth, thus conforming to a certain kind of gender norm.

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