different between cissexual vs cisgender

English

Etymology

From cis- +? sexual, by analogy with transsexual, after the slightly earlier (1991) German zissexuell.

Adjective

cissexual (not comparable)

1. (of a person) Having a gender identity which matches one's birth sex; for example, identifying as male and having (been born with) male genitalia.
   • 2016, Em McAvan, 3: Rhetorics of Disgust and Indeterminacy in Transphobic Acts of Violence, Tobias Raun (editor), Out Online: Trans Self-Representation and Community Building on YouTube, page 54,

     Comfort is a cissexual privilege, ascribed to those who identify with and are socially and institutionally recognizable as the sex they were assigned at birth, thus conforming to a certain kind of gender norm.

Antonyms

• transsexual

Hyponyms

• cishet

Related terms

• cis
• cisgender
• cis man, cis person, cis woman; cis female, cis male
• asexual, intersexual
• cisphobia, cisphobic

Translations

See also

• transgender

References

English

Etymology

From cis- +? gender, by analogy with transgender.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s?s?d??nd?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s?s?d??nd?/

Adjective

cisgender (not comparable)

1. Having a gender identity which matches the sex one was assigned at birth; or, pertaining to such people. [from 20th c.]
   • 2009, Renee Martin, The Guardian, 25 April:

     To uphold the inequality that we choose to engage in, we regularly present the myth that trans people are deviant or a danger to cisgender people.

Synonyms

• cisgendered (uncommon)
• nontrans, nontransgender

Antonyms

• transgender
• genderqueer (bigender/ambigender or agender/genderfree)
• third-gender
• genderfluid
• non-cisgender

Hyponyms

• cishet

Related terms

• cis
• cissexual
• cis man, cis person, cis woman
• cis female, cis male
• cisphobia, cisphobic

Translations

Noun

cisgender (plural cisgenders)

1. A cisgender person.

Translations

See also

• intersex

Anagrams

• recedings, screeding

Polish

Etymology

From English cisgender.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?sis?d???n.d?r/

Noun

cisgender m inan

1. (neologism) cisgender (gender identity which matches the sex one was assigned at birth)

   Synonyms: cisp?ciowo??, cisseksualizm, cisseksualno??

Declension

Noun

cisgender m pers

1. (neologism) cisgender person (gender identity which matches the sex one was assigned at birth)

Declension

Further reading

• cisgender in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• cisgender in Polish dictionaries at PWN