cisgender

Or cis-gen·der

[sis-jen-der]

adjective

1. Also cisgendered noting or relating to a person whose gender identity corresponds with that person’s sex assigned at birth.

noun

1. a person who is cisgender.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cisgender¹

First recorded in 1990–95; cis- ( def. 3 ) + gender ¹ ; modeled on transgender ( def. )

Example Sentences

Transgender and nonbinary youth were nearly twice as likely to say they’d struggled with anxiety and suicidal thoughts than their cisgender peers — a pattern that held steady throughout the first year of data collection on participants in this group.

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Insurance companies are more likely to deny them coverage or to demand that they prove their infertility struggles than cisgender, heterosexual couples.

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Trans people, in particular, are four times more likely to be victims of violent crime than cisgender people.

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More than 95% of the perpetrators are cisgender men and more than 54% are white, according to the Rockefeller Institute of Government — a fact that goes ignored by right-wing commentators, politicians and social media users itching to tie transgender people to the crimes.

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Immediately after a mass shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, last December, anti-trans and out-of-context posts from right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and conservative news site Townhall fueled a flurry of online speculation about the shooter’s gender identity; police identified the shooter as a 15-year-old cisgender girl.

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