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English
Etymology
From replacing the trans- part of translation with cis-; coined by T.J. Jourian.[1]
Noun
cislation (countable and uncountable, plural cislations)
- (transgender and social sciences) The act or process of cislating.
- 2019, Kate Curley, Debunking the false dichotomy: Developing and applying trans quantcrit at the intersection of trans/non-binary identities and religious, secular, and spiritual engagement in college, thesis for Eastern Michigan University
- What is called the cislation of transness (the perpetuation of cisnormativity in descriptions of trans people) in higher education and RSS research is pervasive (Sumerau, 2017; Sumerau, Cragun, & Mathers, 2016). Historically and contemporarily, cis people have controlled the narrative on trans/NB people’s experiences.
- 2019 June 4, T.J. Jourian and Z Nicolazzo, "Not Another Gender Binary: A Call For Complexity Over Cis-Readability: Why a nonbinary/binary trans dichotomy is counterproductive to gender liberation", National Center for Institutional Diversity:
- Rather than push for more fluid, dynamic, and intersectional notions of gender expansiveness, the “binary v. nonbinary trans people” fallacy keeps our most simplified and palatable narratives front and center. This is yet another practice of cislation, or the translating of seemingly illegible (i.e., not understandable) genders for cis recognition.
2020, Z Nicolazzo, TJ Jourian, “'I'm looking for people who want to do disruption work': Trans* academics and power discourses in academic conferences”, in Gender and Education, 2020:[…] our and our kin’s lives, realities, bodies, and voices, thereby interrupting their cislation. Cislation refers to an analytical practice of presenting trans perspectives in such a way as to make them legible to a dominantly and presumably nontrans readership, but that may in fact […]
2021 August 5, Joshua M. Paiz, James E. Coda, Intersectional Perspectives on LGBTQ+ Issues in Modern Language Teaching and Learning, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 163:Binary and non-binary more often function as cislations (i.e., their use is often aimed at making trans positionalities more understandable to cisgender people) than as a readable trans dichotomy (see Jourian & Nicolazzo, 2019).
References
- ^ Z Nicolazzo, Alden C. Jones, Sy Simms (2022 December 9) Digital Me: Trans Students Exploring Future Possible Selves Online, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN: “Originally conceptualized by Jourian (Admin, 2017), the neologism cislation indicates “the translating of seemingly illegible (i.e., not understandable) genders for cis [nontrans] recognition” (Jourian and Nicolazzo, 2019, para. 2).”