cisgenderist

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adjective

Relating to or characterized by cisgenderism ("attitudes or beliefs that privilege cisgender people or perspectives over transgender ones").

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectivecisgenderist (comparative more cisgenderist, superlative most cisgenderist)

comparative more cisgenderist · superlative most cisgenderist

  1. Relating to or characterized by cisgenderism ("attitudes or beliefs that privilege cisgender people or perspectives over transgender ones").
    1 more example

    Their results showed that cisgenderist language is commonplace in professional communications between psychologists about children who self-defined their gender, that the most pathologizing language is found in literature by mental health professionals, and that those most closely tied to the most prolific author in the field through publication are most likely to use language that pathologizes and misgenders children.

    2014, Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, Feminist Research Practice: A Primer, 2nd edition, Los Angeles, C.A. […]: SAGE, →ISBN, page 63
nouncisgenderist (plural cisgenderists)

plural cisgenderists

  1. One who believes in or advocates for cisgenderism.

    Real gender self-determination would lead only to more 'legal men with wombs' and 'legal women with meat penises' – and persons of uncertain gender and unreadable bodies, leaving cisgenderists without a 'panic' defence.

    2019 November 27, Grietje Baars, “Queer Cases Unmake Gendered Law, Or, Fucking Law's Gendering Function”, in The Australian Feminist Law Journal, volume 45, number 1, Victoria: Routledge, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60

Origin

Translations

French cisgenriste, cisgenriste
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Polish cisgenderystyczny, cisgenderysta
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Cite this entry
APA

cisgenderist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cisgenderist

MLA

“cisgenderist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cisgenderist. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cisgenderist,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cisgenderist.

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