Everything about Cisgender totally explained
Cisgender is an adjective used in the context of
gender issues and
counselling to refer to a type of
gender identity formed by a match between an individual's biological
sex and the
behavior or role considered appropriate for one's sex.In some feminist organizations, cisgender has come to mean, "A
gender identity formed by a match between your biological sex and your subconscious sex."
Cisgender exists in contrast to
transgender on the gender spectrum.
Language
The word has its origin in the
Latin-derived prefix
cis, meaning "on the same side" as in the
cis-trans distinction in chemistry. In this case, "
cis" (
on the same side) refers to the unity of a gender identity with a biological gender assignment.
Internet use
The word
cisgender has been used on the internet since at least 1994, when it appeared in the
alt.transgendered usenet group in a post by Dana Leland Defosse. Defosse doesn't define the term and seems to assume that readers are already familiar with it.
Coinage has been attributed to Carl Buijs, a
transsexual man from the
Netherlands, in a number of internet publications. which suggest that he proposed the term in 1995. It may have been independently coined -- in April of 1996, Buijs said in a usenet posting "As for the origin; I just made it up".
Academic use
The term has more recently been used in scholarly publications, such as a 2006 article in the
Journal of Lesbian Studies and Julia Serano's 2007 publication
Whipping Girl. Serano also uses the related terms
cissexual, which she defines as "people who are not transsexual and who have only ever experienced their subconscious and physical sexes as being aligned" (p. 12), and
cissexism, "which is the belief that transsexuals' identified genders are inferior to, or less authentic than, those of
cissexuals."
Further Information
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