Meanings
cisness1
- uncountableThe quality of being cisgender.
But inevitably, my cisness crumbled, and with it, my belief in the usefulness of gender itself.
2020, LJ, "Who Needs Gender?", in Non-Binary Lives: An Anthology of Intersecting Identities (eds. Benjamin Vincent, Jos Twist, Kat Gupta, & Meg-John Barker), page 642 more examples
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.
2018, Julian Gill-Peterson, Histories of the Transgender Child, unnumbered pageCisgender is assumed to be the “default” identity; mainstream culture is saturated with cisness and cisnormativity.
2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, page 69
cisness2
- uncountableCrip slangBusiness.
Origin
cisness · noun
From c- + a corruption of business (to which, cf. bizness).
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