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English
Etymology
From cis- + supremacy, by analogy with white supremacy.
Noun
cissupremacy (uncountable)
- (LGBTQ, neologism) Ideology that regards cis people as superior to other people (including trans people, nonbinary people, and genderfluid people), or diminishes the rights or interests of those who are not cis.
2012, “OWS Must Resist Cis-Supremacy and Trans-Misogyny”, in Amy Schrager Lang, Daniel Lang/Levitsky, editors, Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement, page 129:To fight this systemic oppression — including transphobia, cis-centrism, cis-supremacy and trans-misogyny — it is essential we support the self-determination of all people oppressed by coercive, non-consensual gender assignments.
- 2015, Aryeh Conrad, "Towards a Truer Representation: Transphobic Casting Politics and the Cis-Gaze in Film", paper submitted to the University of Puget Sound, page 10:
- Cisgender directors and writers cannot be the judge of what an authentic trans portrayal looks like because of their socialization in cissupremacy.
2016, Nora Berenstain, “Epistemic Exploitation”, in Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, volume 3, number 22, page 570:In that context where cissexism and cissupremacy are the oppressions in question, a cisgender woman would not count as a marginalized person.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cissupremacy.
- Behavior (individual or systemic) in which cis people are privileged over other people in society (trans people, nonbinary people, genderfluid people).
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