28 December 2016

cisgender or cis-gender

[sis-jen-der]

adjective

1. Also, cisgendered. noting or relating to a person whose gender identity corresponds with that person’s biological sex assigned at birth.
noun
2. a person who is cisgender.

Not transgender.

Origin of cisgender

1990-1995; cis- ( def 3 ) + gender1; modeled on transgender

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Contemporary Examples

Cis Male (see also Cis Man, cisgender Male, cisgender Man); a male who identifies as a man/has a masculine gender identity.
If gender isn’t binary, if it is fluid and can transgress boundaries, than a binary between cisgender and transgender cannot exist.
I am NOT cisgendered
J. Nelson Aviance
18 July 2014
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/j-nelson-aviance/i-am-not-cisgendered_b_5598113.html

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On this day

28 December – the fourth day of the 12 days of Christmas (Western Christianity).

28 December 1945 – the United States Congress officially recognises the pledge of allegiance to the flag, which states, ‘I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all’.

28 December 1981 – the world’s first test-tube baby is born after being conceived in a lab dish. Her name is Elizabeth Jordan Carr and she weighed 5lb 12oz.