Editing Cisgender (section)

=== Responses to critiques ===

After the Oxford Dictionary added ''cisgender'' as a word in 2015, ''[[The Advocate (magazine)|The Advocate]]'' wrote that "even among LGBT people, the word is hotly debated";<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Brydum |first=Sunnivie |date=July 31, 2015 |title=The True Meaning of the Word 'Cisgender' |url=http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2015/07/31/true-meaning-word-cisgender |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150803014730/http://www.advocate.com:80/transgender/2015/07/31/true-meaning-word-cisgender? |archive-date=August 3, 2015 |access-date=November 26, 2021 |website=[[The Advocate (magazine)|The Advocate]] |language=en |quote=}}</ref> transgender veteran Brynn Tannehill argued that it was "often used in a negative way" by trans people to express "a certain level of contempt" for people they think should not partake in discussions on trans issues.<ref name=":0" /> Transgender scholar K.J. Rawson, by contrast, stated that "cis" was "not meant to be dismissive, but rather descriptive", and was no different than using the word "straight" to describe people that are [[Heterosexuality|heterosexual]]. Rawson explained that people who are straight "don't typically experience their heterosexuality as an identity, many don't identify as heterosexual—they don't need to, because culture has already done that for them", and that "similarly, cisgender people don't generally identify as cisgender because societal expectations already presume that they are."<ref name=":0" />

In a 2023 essay, Defosse said she did not intend the word as an insult. She says she does not believe the word ''cisgender'' caused problems, and that "it only revealed them."<ref name="Defosse2023">{{Cite web |last = Defosse |first = Dana |date = February 18, 2023 |title = I Coined The Term 'Cisgender' 29 Years Ago. Here's What This Controversial Word Really Means. |url = https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-cisgender-means-transgender_n_63e13ee0e4b01e9288730415 |access-date = February 18, 2023 |website = HuffPost |language = en |archive-date = February 18, 2023 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230218144856/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-cisgender-means-transgender_n_63e13ee0e4b01e9288730415 |url-status = live }}</ref>