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Also known as cisidentity

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
gender identity
Subclass of
person
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opposite of
transgender
different from
heterosexuality
hashtag
cisgender
Commons category
Cisgender
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Encyclopedic overview

17 sections
Contents
  • Etymology
  • History and usage of the term
  • Coinage
  • German
  • English
  • Academic use
  • Social media
  • Definitions
  • Critiques
  • From feminism and gender studies
  • From intersex organizations
  • From Elon Musk
  • Responses to critiques
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

The word cisgender (often shortened to cis; sometimes cissexual) describes a person whose gender identity corresponds to their sex assigned at birth, i.e., someone who is not transgender. The prefix cis- is Latin and means on this side of. The term cisgender was coined in 1994 as an antonym to transgender, and entered into dictionaries starting in 2015 as a result of changes in social discourse about gender.

Related concepts are cisnormativity (the presumption that cisgender identity is preferred or normal) and cissexism (bias or prejudice favoring cisgender people).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “cisgender” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.