Meanings
comparative more cissupremacist · superlative most cissupremacist · alternative cis-supremacist
- neologismExhibiting or relating to cissupremacy.
It's already hard as is for LGBTQIA+ people to navigate the heteronormative and cis-supremacist world we live in.
2015 March/April, King Chan, A Bi* Guy's Way of Queering up Bi* for our Queer World, in getoutlb, page 52 more examples
The blog critic gudbuy t'jane is even more scathing in her condemnation of the video in arguing that the fact that Lady Gaga 'uses trans women and drag queens to exoticize her videos doesn't defer from the cissupremacist stance that women=vagina, and trans women are therefore not real women . . . This is transmisogyny.'
2011, Diane Railton, Paul Watson, Music Video and the Politics of Representation, page 146The concept originated during the cis-supremacist witch hunts which sought to systematically remove trans women from feminist organizations during the 1970s.
2012, “OWS Must Resist Cis-Supremacy and Trans-Misogyny”, in Amy Schrager Lang, Daniel Lang/Levitsky, editors, Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement, unnumbered page
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cissupremacist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cissupremacist
“cissupremacist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cissupremacist. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cissupremacist,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cissupremacist.
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