cissexist

English

Etymology

cis- +‎ sexist

Adjective

cissexist (comparative more cissexist, superlative most cissexist)

  1. Exhibiting or related to cissexism.
    • 2007, Julie Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, Seal Press (2007), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
      Living in this extraordinarily cissexist (and oppositionally sexist) world, transsexuals recognize cissexual privilege for what it is: a privilege.
    • 2011, Em McAvan, "Rhetorics of Disgust and Indeterminacy in Transphobic Acts of Violence", in Homofiles: Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies (ed. Jes Battis), Lexington Books (2011), →ISBN, pages 26-27:
      It seems necessary to stress that there is a rather large gulf between the indeterminacy accorded trans subjects by the normative presumptions of cissexist culture and the self-identifications of trans people.
    • 2013, Jon Edwards & Luisa Edwards, The Boy Who Was Born a Girl: One Mother’s Unconditional Love for Her Child, Arrow (2013), →ISBN, page 15:
      Indeed, many transgender men use the excuse 'oh, I was such a tomboy when I was younger' in order to validate their gender identity to a cissexist (the belief that the genders of trans people are less legitimate than those of cis gender people) society.

Noun

cissexist (plural cissexists)

  1. A person who exhibits cissexism.

Synonyms
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