ciswash

present singular third person ciswashes · participle present ciswashing · participle past ciswashed · past ciswashed

1. transitiveTo ignore, deny, or minimize the gender identity of a trans person or trans people, or the role that a trans person or trans people played in an event.

   Throughout the 2-minute trailer, I watched the passionate and diverse history of our movement be whitewashed and ciswashed.

   2015, Matt Comer, "'Stonewall' film attracts criticism", QNotes, Volume 30, Number 8, 14 August 2015 - 27 August 2015, page 17

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   Numerous media outlets recounted how the noble gays and lesbians fought that night – never mentioning trans folk… carrying on that long and painful tradition of ciswashing queer history – especially Stonewall history.

   2013 February 18, Cristan Williams, “Interview With an Actual Stonewall Riot Veteran: The Ciswashing of Stonewall Must End!”, in The Transadvocate

   Let's stop ciswashing and whitewashing Stonewall, and use it instead as an example of how we need to fight racism, transmisogyny and poverty in our culture.

   2015, Leela Ginelle, "Let's Remember What Stonewall Actually Was", PQ Monthly, August/September 2015, page 15