cisnormative

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English

Etymology

From cis- +‎ normative.

Pronunciation

Adjective

cisnormative (comparative more cisnormative, superlative most cisnormative)

  1. (LGBTQ, neologism) Of or pertaining to cisnormativity.
    • 2009, Greta R. Bauer, Rebecca Hammond, Robb Travers, Matthias Kaay, Karin M. Hohenadel, & Michelle Boyce, "'I Don't Think This Is Theoretical; This Is Our Lives': How Erasure Impacts Health Care for Transgender People", Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, Volume 20, Issue 5, September-October 2009, page 353:
      This erasure reflects the priorities, biases, and oversights of writers and publishers who function in a cisnormative system, one in which people are assumed to be cissexual.
    • 2012 October, Jen Roberton, Emily Milton, “Cisnormative assumptions and queer sex”, in The Strand, volume 55, number 5,29, Victoria University, page 4:
      Cisnormative assumptions are tied in with discourses surrounding HIV and STIs.
    • 2013 October 11, Bailey Dineen, “My Queer Rage”, in The Cornell Daily Sun, volume 130, number 34, Cornell University, page 7:
      In a cisnormative world, I could not comprehend the humiliation I felt, at eight years old, when I received a “girl” bike for Christmas, because everything around me reflected the experiences of people for whom the color of their bike somehow aligned with their genitalia.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cisnormative.

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