Cisgender is a term for people whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth. For example, someone who identifies as a woman and was assigned female at birth is a cisgender woman. Related terms include cissexism and cisnormativity.
About Cisgender in brief
Cisgender is a term for people whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth. For example, someone who identifies as a woman and was assigned female at birth is a cisgender woman. Related terms include cissexism and cisnormativity. Some believe that the term cisgender is merely politically correct, but medical academics use the term and have recognized its importance in transgender studies since the 1990s. In February 2014, Facebook began offering \”custom gender options, allowing users to identify with one or more gender-related terms from a selected list, including cis, cisgender, and others. Cisgender was also added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013, defined as \”designating a person whose sense of personal identity corresponds to the sex and gender assigned to him or her at birth \”.
In 2009, Krista Scott-Dixon wrote that she prefers the term non-transsexual to other options such as ciscisgendered. She holds this view because she believes the term is clearer and will help normalize transgender individuals. She suggests that some consider the self-defeating gender binary to be dangerous or just as dangerous as the masculine–feminine gender binary, because it lumps together people who identify as heterosexual, lesbian, gay or bisexual.
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This page is based on the article Cisgender published in Wikipedia (as of Dec. 10, 2020) and was automatically summarized using artificial intelligence.
