different between ciswoman vs cissexual

English

Noun

ciswoman (plural ciswomen)

1. (sometimes proscribed) Alternative spelling of cis woman

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