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English
Etymology
From cis- + sexual, by analogy with transsexual, after the slightly earlier (1991) German zissexuell.[1]
Adjective
cissexual (not comparable)
- (of a person, uncommon) Having a gender identity which matches one's birth sex; for example, identifying as male and having (been born with) male genitalia.
- Antonym: transsexual
2011, Jes Battis, Homofiles: Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies, page 25: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.
2013, Kelby Harrison, Sexual Deceit: The Ethics of Passing, page 13: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.
2016, Em McAvan, “3: Rhetorics of Disgust and Indeterminacy in Transphobic Acts of Violence”, in Tobias Raun, editor, Out Online: Trans Self-Representation and Community Building on YouTube, page 54: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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Translations
having a gender identity which matches one's birth sex
— see cisgenderSee also
References
- ^ Sexologist Volkmar Sigusch states that he originated the term in his 1991 article "Die Transsexuellen und unser nosomorpher Blick" ("Transsexuals and our nosomorphic view").