• Cissexist

    Origin

    - + sexist

    Full definition of cissexist

    Adjective

    cissexist

    1. Exhibiting or related to cissexism.
      • 2007, Julie Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, Seal Press (2007), ISBN 9780786747917, unnumbered page:Living in this extraordinarily cissexist (and oppositionally sexist) world, transsexuals recognize cissexual privilege for what it is: a privilege.
      • 2011, Em McAvan, "Rhetorics of Disgust and Indeterminacy in Transphobic Acts of Violence", in Homofiles: Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies (ed. Jes Battis), Lexington Books (2011), ISBN 9780739131916, pages 26-27:It seems necessary to stress that there is a rather large gulf between the indeterminacy accorded trans subjects by the normative presumptions of cissexist culture and the self-identifications of trans people.
      • 2013, Jon Edwards & Luisa Edwards, The Boy Who Was Born a Girl: One Mother’s Unconditional Love for Her Child, Arrow (2013), ISBN 9780099558248, page 15:Indeed, many transgender men use the excuse 'oh, I was such a tomboy when I was younger' in order to validate their gender identity to a cissexist (the belief that the genders of trans people are less legitimate than those of cis gender people) society.
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