cissexualadj.n.
/sɪsˈsɛkʃʊəl/, /sɪsˈsɛkʃ(ᵿ)l/, U.S. /ˌsɪsˈsɛkʃ(əw)əl/ A. adj.
Designating a person whose sense of personal identity and gender corresponds to his or her sex at birth; of or relating to such a person; not transsexual. Cf. cisgender adj.Often used synonymously with cisgender (i.e. in contrast to transgender), but also used more specifically in contrast to transsexual.
ΚΠ
2000 Communicational Skepticism in alt.support.srs (Usenet newsgroup) 24 Feb. These features are freely combinable in the possibility of being endosexed + cissexual endosexed + transsexual [etc.].
2008 F-word No. 3. 31 When I look into trans women's eyes, I see a profound appreciation for how fucking empowering it can be to be female, an appreciation that seems lost on many cissexual women.
2013 K. Harrison Sexual Deceit 13 Cissexual privilege..is a gender entitlement based on the assumption that being birthed into a gender gives someone a greater legitimacy.
B. n.
A cissexual person; someone who is not transsexual. Cf. cisgender n.
ΚΠ
2000 Re: She wouldn't have known what a Transexual was, But... in alt.personals.new-zealand (Usenet newsgroup) 8 Apr. What the hell is a Cissexual? Well, everybody that is not Trans.
2007 J. Serano in A. Olson Word Warriors 377 I do not ‘pass’ as a woman—I am a woman. If I ‘pass’ as anything these days, it is as a cissexual (i.e., someone who is not transsexual).
2015 A. Brown tr. M. Februari Making of Man ii. 30 ‘Cissexism’.., the conviction that the gender of a transsexual has less value or is less authentic than that of a cissexual.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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