Cisness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cisness is a noun meaning The quality of being cisgender.
Meaning
The quality of being cisgender.
More Meanings
- (Crip slang) Business.
Example Sentences
But inevitably, my cisness crumbled, and with it, my belief in the usefulness of gender itself.
Cisgender is assumed to be the “default” identity; mainstream culture is saturated with cisness and cisnormativity.
What's more, the assumed cisness of children during that century means that alongside Val and the other trans children in this book were countless, unnamed others whose experience is still hidden from view.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cisfemininity, cissexuality, cismasculinity, transness, catness, certainness.
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