Cisgender
adjective
A person who identifies with the gender they were assigned at birth.
My friend is cisgender, so she has always identified as a woman, the gender she was assigned at birth.
Often appears as...
- cisgender male
- cisgender female
adjective
A person who identifies with the gender they were assigned at birth.
My friend is cisgender, so she has always identified as a woman, the gender she was assigned at birth.
Often appears as...
- cisgender male
- cisgender female
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Pro Tip 1/3Identity Confirmation
Explains personal alignment with birth gender, affirming traditional gender identity.
Unlike transgender people, my brother is cisgender and finds that label accurate.
Pro Tip 2/3Social Understanding
Helps specify gender identity in discussions of gender diversity and inclusivity.
In our diversity training, we learned that 'cisgender' refers to those whose gender matches their birth sex.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Assumptions
Use when gender identity is known; assuming someone is cisgender can be incorrect.
She introduced herself as a cisgender female, which informed our conversation on gender topics.
Pro Tip 1/3Identity Confirmation
Explains personal alignment with birth gender, affirming traditional gender identity.
Unlike transgender people, my brother is cisgender and finds that label accurate.
Pro Tip 2/3Social Understanding
Helps specify gender identity in discussions of gender diversity and inclusivity.
In our diversity training, we learned that 'cisgender' refers to those whose gender matches their birth sex.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Assumptions
Use when gender identity is known; assuming someone is cisgender can be incorrect.
She introduced herself as a cisgender female, which informed our conversation on gender topics.
Pro Tip 1/3Identity Confirmation
Explains personal alignment with birth gender, affirming traditional gender identity.
Unlike transgender people, my brother is cisgender and finds that label accurate.
Pro Tip 2/3Social Understanding
Helps specify gender identity in discussions of gender diversity and inclusivity.
In our diversity training, we learned that 'cisgender' refers to those whose gender matches their birth sex.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoid Assumptions
Use when gender identity is known; assuming someone is cisgender can be incorrect.
She introduced herself as a cisgender female, which informed our conversation on gender topics.
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What doctors should know...
This is how many transgender individuals feel. They just know who they are with that same conviction. It's important to know that there are many different types of identities, and I identify as a cisgender female. Now, for all y'all out there that like to know how to spell things,
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Recruiting Women for...
and so that's what we're talking about right is people aren't thinking of women as candidates or they're just and so their network of recruitment is not reflective of that if you're a cisgendered straight white male your network is likely gonna have a lot of cisgender
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Love doesn’t need labels...
identity labels okay 50 including cisgender this woman trans man intersex sis sis sis sis sis wait till you look up sis many of us are sissies I'll tell you that I've looked these up and I'm at
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What doctors should know...
This is how many transgender individuals feel. They just know who they are with that same conviction. It's important to know that there are many different types of identities, and I identify as a cisgender female. Now, for all y'all out there that like to know how to spell things,
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Recruiting Women for...
and so that's what we're talking about right is people aren't thinking of women as candidates or they're just and so their network of recruitment is not reflective of that if you're a cisgendered straight white male your network is likely gonna have a lot of cisgender
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Love doesn’t need labels...
identity labels okay 50 including cisgender this woman trans man intersex sis sis sis sis sis wait till you look up sis many of us are sissies I'll tell you that I've looked these up and I'm at
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Quote examples
Sarah McBride
American Activist
The first time I heard the word 'transgender' had been in a sitcom episode that mocked the potential for cisgender people to find people like me attractive. Every time someone expressed any interest in the gorgeous trans guest character - her identity still a secret to most of the main characters in the show - the laugh track would cue.
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Hari Nef
American Actress
I feel like so much of mainstream feminism springs from the second wave, which was essentially a discourse spearheaded by white, cisgender, upper middle class women. I feel - especially as I'm trying to negotiate this new female space with the feminism that's available to me - there are a lot of places where I'm disenfranchised.
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Seanan McGuire
American Author
I am a cisgender woman who has always had a lot of female friends. While many of us have traits in common, none of us will ever be exactly the same. So it's enormously important to me that my female characters be people, and be allowed to be whatever they need to be.
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Eugene Lee Yang
I've always presented as a very cisgender male and that was part of the reason I was able to cover so easily... I was always in such a strictly binary environment growing up. I was never given an opportunity to sort of play into more genderqueer fashion.
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Nicole Maines
American Actress
Cisgender actors don't take trans roles out of malice. I think it's just failure to realize the context behind having cisgender people play transgender characters because we don't see the same issue with sexuality.
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Indya Moore
American Actor
We rarely see cisgender heterosexual men in positions where they're nurturers. We only paint femmes, trans women, and cis women as nurturers, and because of toxic masculinity, men are taught not to be that way.
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Eddie Redmayne
English Actor
There's been a huge history of cisgender success on the back of trans stories, which is something I'm deeply aware of. My take on it, I suppose, was that I do think actors should be able to play anything.
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Sebastian Lelio
Chilean Director
I'm not saying transgender characters should be only interpreted by transgender actors - because that would be as rigid as saying transgender actors cannot play cisgender roles, and that's not the idea.
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Carmen Carrera
American Entertainer
There's a lot of healing that needs to happen between the LGBT community and the cisgender heterosexual world. There's a ton of misunderstanding.
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Jeffrey Tambor
American Actor
I would not be unhappy were I the last cisgender male to play a female transgender on television.
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Sarah McBride
American Activist
The first time I heard the word 'transgender' had been in a sitcom episode that mocked the potential for cisgender people to find people like me attractive. Every time someone expressed any interest in the gorgeous trans guest character - her identity still a secret to most of the main characters in the show - the laugh track would cue.
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Hari Nef
American Actress
I feel like so much of mainstream feminism springs from the second wave, which was essentially a discourse spearheaded by white, cisgender, upper middle class women. I feel - especially as I'm trying to negotiate this new female space with the feminism that's available to me - there are a lot of places where I'm disenfranchised.
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Seanan McGuire
American Author
I am a cisgender woman who has always had a lot of female friends. While many of us have traits in common, none of us will ever be exactly the same. So it's enormously important to me that my female characters be people, and be allowed to be whatever they need to be.
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Eugene Lee Yang
I've always presented as a very cisgender male and that was part of the reason I was able to cover so easily... I was always in such a strictly binary environment growing up. I was never given an opportunity to sort of play into more genderqueer fashion.
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Nicole Maines
American Actress
Cisgender actors don't take trans roles out of malice. I think it's just failure to realize the context behind having cisgender people play transgender characters because we don't see the same issue with sexuality.
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Indya Moore
American Actor
We rarely see cisgender heterosexual men in positions where they're nurturers. We only paint femmes, trans women, and cis women as nurturers, and because of toxic masculinity, men are taught not to be that way.
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Eddie Redmayne
English Actor
There's been a huge history of cisgender success on the back of trans stories, which is something I'm deeply aware of. My take on it, I suppose, was that I do think actors should be able to play anything.
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Sebastian Lelio
Chilean Director
I'm not saying transgender characters should be only interpreted by transgender actors - because that would be as rigid as saying transgender actors cannot play cisgender roles, and that's not the idea.
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Carmen Carrera
American Entertainer
There's a lot of healing that needs to happen between the LGBT community and the cisgender heterosexual world. There's a ton of misunderstanding.
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Jeffrey Tambor
American Actor
I would not be unhappy were I the last cisgender male to play a female transgender on television.
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