cis male
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of cis male
First recorded in 2005–10
Example Sentences
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One that garnered plenty of coverage is the choice to cast Park Sung-hoon, a cis male actor, to pla a trans woman named Hyun-ju who joins the game for the chance to fund her “gender-affirming surgery,” as Netflix’s notes describe the role.
From Salon
In Western medicine, hormonal conditions resulting in cis male lactation are well known, and the understanding of how both breast growth and lactation can be produced in cis men using hormones goes back at least as far as this study from 1954.
From Slate
But as trans scholar Sandy Stone wrote in her famous reply to Raymond, it's not that trans women are unwilling dupes of cis male medical authority, but rather that we have to strategically perform our womanhood in certain ways to access the care and treatments we need.
From Salon
A: Even though our central figure is Norma Desmond, “Sunset Boulevard” is from the point of view of Joe Gillis, a young, White, cis male in his 20s.
From Washington Post
Then it moved to Broadway with still some designers of color, but some white cis male designers incorporated into the team.
From New York Times
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