cishet

alternative cis-het

1. informalnot comparableCisgender and heterosexual.

   […] it reinforces the problematic notion that 'true' feminism belongs to cishet white abled feminists; […]

   2014, Bec Eames, "In defence of unattractive feminism", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Semester 1, Week 12, page 17

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   Even in death, the way we are spoken about by the mainstream cishet world is traumatizing and violent. Even in death, trans women of color cannot escape the trauma of colonialism and genocide.

   2013, "Witchymorgan", "On the Labor Movement and Transmisogyny", Black & Pink, May 2013, page 4

   While children can be born to any kind of parent and situation, unless drastic measures are taken, they will be raised in an overwhelmingly cisgendered and heterosexual (cishet) world. Cishet children and adults’ identities are affirmed by media, legal documents, population majority, history and other depictions of assumed cis-ness and heterosexuality.

   2013, Ariel Estrella, "Hegemony, heteronormativity and amoeba", The Mac Weekly (Macalester College), 18 October 2013

   Synonyms: cishetero, cisheterosexual

plural cishets · alternative cis-het

1. informalA cisgender and heterosexual person.

   I don't fuck with cishets / I look so good in fishnets

   2020, “cishets (i don't want it at all)”, in Fraxiom (lyrics), umru (music), Feeling Cool And Normal, performed by Fraxiom

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   Last weekend I was on Facebook taking part in a conversation about dating sites when someone called me a cishet, in a sneering tone.

   2013, Anonymous letter-writer quoted in Maureen Matthews, "About last night", The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 October 2013

   People who identify as cisgender and heterosexual, or cishets, are certainly more privileged in today’s society than the LGBTQIA+ community — which includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer-identified, intersex, and asexual people, as well as others who do not identify as cishet people.

   2014 July 5, Anthony Speciyogic, “Burger King Pride Campaign Claims ‘We’re All The Same Inside’”, in Inquisitr