Meanings
- informalpluralplural onlyCisgender people.
Trans* and trans each come from the abbreviation of transgender, the word that I've found resonates most with cisfolk above a certain age.
2014 October, Taylor Stocks, “Gender Lesson 201”, in The Outport, page 62 more examples
“I want to fuck gender. What does that mean? It means taking gender, a beautiful, wonderful thing and rockin it just right. Most cisfolk, they're stuck holding hands. And that's not to say no cisfolk fuck gender, or that hand holding isn't its own amazing thing. […]”
2010 Spring, “The Queerest Art: Genderf*ck”, in OutWrite Newsmagazine, University of California, Los Angeles, page 7[> A transgender person is going to a lot of trouble to insist on adopting a particular gender. Why wouldn't 'they' want to adopt the usual pronoun?] Separate issues. Some cisfolk might also prefer 'they'.
2018 August 11, Richard Yates, “Re: non-binary gender pronoun confusion”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet)Antonyms: transfolk
Synonyms & antonyms
nounCisgender people.
Origin
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cisfolk. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cisfolk
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