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English
Etymology
From cis- + supremacist.
Adjective
cissupremacist (comparative more cissupremacist, superlative most cissupremacist)
- (LGBTQ, neologism) Exhibiting or relating to cissupremacy.
2011, Diane Railton, Paul Watson, Music Video and the Politics of Representation, page 146:The blog critic gudbuy t'jane is even more scathing in her condemnation of the video in arguing that the fact that Lady Gaga 'uses trans women and drag queens to exoticize her videos doesn't defer from the cissupremacist stance that women=vagina, and trans women are therefore not real women . . . This is transmisogyny.'
2012, “OWS Must Resist Cis-Supremacy and Trans-Misogyny”, in Amy Schrager Lang, Daniel Lang/Levitsky, editors, Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement, unnumbered page:The concept originated during the cis-supremacist witch hunts which sought to systematically remove trans women from feminist organizations during the 1970s.
- 2015 March/April, King Chan, A Bi* Guy's Way of Queering up Bi* for our Queer World, in getoutlb, page 5:
- It's already hard as is for LGBTQIA+ people to navigate the heteronormative and cis-supremacist world we live in.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cissupremacist.