Editing Cisgender (section)

== Definitions ==

Sociologists Kristen Schilt and Laurel Westbrook define ''cisgender'' as a label for "individuals who have a match between the gender they were assigned at birth, their bodies, and their personal identity".<ref name="Schilt2" /> A number of derivatives of the terms ''cisgender'' and ''cissexual'' include ''cis male'' for "male assigned male at birth", ''cis female'' for "female assigned female at birth", analogously ''cis man'' and ''cis woman'',<ref name="advo">{{cite web |url = http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2015/07/31/true-meaning-word-cisgender |title = The true meaning of the word 'cisgender' |first = Sunnivie |last = Brydum |date = July 31, 2015 |work = [[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]] |access-date = March 15, 2017 |archive-date = August 3, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150803014730/http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2015/07/31/true-meaning-word-cisgender |url-status = live }}</ref>{{failed verification|date=January 2024}} and ''[[cissexism]]'' and ''[[cissexual assumption]]''<ref>{{Cite book |title = Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity |url = https://archive.org/details/whippinggirltran0000sera |url-access = registration |last = Serano |first = Julia |publisher = Seal Press |year = 2007 |isbn = 978-1580051545 |location = Berkeley |pages = [https://archive.org/details/whippinggirltran0000sera/page/164 164]–165 }}</ref> or ''cisnormativity'' (akin to ''[[heteronormativity]]'').<ref>{{cite journal |last1 = Logie |first1 = Carmen |last2 = James |first2 = Lana |last3 = Tharao |first3 = Wangari |author4 = [[Mona Loutfy]] |year = 2012 |title = ''We don't exist'': a qualitative study of marginalization experienced by HIV-positive lesbian, bisexual, queer and transgender women in Toronto, Canada |journal = Journal of the International AIDS Society |volume = 15 |issue = 2 |pages = 17392 |url = http://www.jiasociety.org/index.php/jias/article/view/17392 |access-date = January 17, 2013 |doi = 10.7448/ias.15.2.17392 |pmid = 22989529 |pmc = 3494165 |archive-date = October 6, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171006084849/http://www.jiasociety.org/index.php/jias/article/view/17392 |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1 = Ou Jin Lee |first1 = Edward |last2 = Brotman |first2 = Shari |year = 2011 |title = Identity, Refugeeness, Belonging: Experiences of Sexual Minority Refugees in Canada |journal = Canadian Review of Sociology |volume = 48 |issue = 3 |pages = 241–274 |doi = 10.1111/j.1755-618X.2011.01265.x |pmid = 22214042 }}</ref> Eli{{nbsp}}R. Green wrote in 2006, "cisgendered is used [instead of the more popular gender normative]<!--PLEASE PRESERVE this bracketed text – this is an exact quotation--> to refer to people who do not identify with a gender diverse experience, without enforcing existence of a normative gender expression".<ref>{{Cite journal |last1 = Green |first1 = Eli R. |title = Debating Trans Inclusion in the Feminist Movement: A Trans-Positive Analysis |journal = Journal of Lesbian Studies |volume = 10 |issue = 1/2 |pages = 231–248 [247] |year = 2006 |doi = 10.1300/j155v10n01_12 |pmid = 16873223 |s2cid = 40988200 }}</ref>

Others{{Which|date=June 2024}} have similarly argued that using terms such as ''man'' or ''woman'' to mean ''cis man'' or ''cis woman'' reinforced [[cisnormativity]], and that instead using the prefix ''cis'' similarly to ''trans'' would counteract the cisnormative connotations within language.

[[Julia Serano]] has defined ''cissexual'' as "people who are not [[transsexual]] and who have only ever experienced their mental and physical sexes as being aligned", while ''cisgender'' is a slightly narrower term for those who do not identify as transgender (a larger cultural category than the more clinical ''transsexual'').<ref name="Serano">{{cite book |title = Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity |url = https://archive.org/details/whippinggirltran0000sera |url-access = registration |last = Serano |first = Julia |year = 2007 |publisher = Seal Press |isbn = 978-1-58005-154-5 |page = [https://archive.org/details/whippinggirltran0000sera/page/12 12] }}</ref> For Jessica Cadwallader, ''cissexual'' is "a way of drawing attention to the [[unmarked]] norm, against which [[transgender|trans]] is identified, in which a person feels that their [[gender identity]] matches their body/sex".<ref>{{Cite book |last1 = Sullivan |last2 = Murray |first1 = Nikki |first2 = Samantha |title = Somatechnics: queering the technologisation of bodies |url = https://archive.org/details/somatechnicsquee00murr |url-access = limited |publisher = [[Ashgate Publishing]] |location = Surrey, England |year = 2009 |page = [https://archive.org/details/somatechnicsquee00murr/page/n31 17] |isbn = 978-0-7546-7530-3 }}</ref> 

Serano also uses the related term ''cissexism'', "which is the belief that transsexuals' identified genders are inferior to, or less authentic than, those of cissexuals".<ref>Serano (2007) also defines ''cisgender'' as synonymous with "non-transgender" and ''cissexual'' with "non-transsexual" (p. 33).</ref> In 2010, the term ''cisgender [[social privilege|privilege]]'' appeared in academic literature, defined as the "set of unearned advantages that individuals who identify as the gender they were assigned at birth accrue solely due to having a cisgender identity".<ref>Walls, N. E., & Costello, K. (2010). "Head ladies center for teacup chain": Exploring cisgender privilege in a (predominantly) gay male context. In S. Anderson and V. Middleton ''Explorations in diversity: Examining privilege and oppression in a multicultural society, 2nd ed.'' (pp. 81−93). Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole.  Quote appears on p.83.</ref>