The word 'cisgender' is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to individuals whose gender identity aligns with the sex they were assigned at birth. One can use 'cisgender' when discussing gender identity or inclusivity, such as in the sentence, "The company is committed to creating a safe and inclusive environment for all employees, including those who identify as cisgender."
If we accept her in part because she fits into our understanding of the gender binary, then we're celebrating not just her transition but her economic privilege and her allegiance to a beauty standard that, for non-trans, cisgender women, may mean being more desired or liked, but for trans women is often an insurmountable barrier to being considered women at all.
He had posted that the use of the word "cisgender" as the opposite of "transgender" troubled him.
Cisgender A person whose gender and biological sex align; someone who is not transgender.
Suddenly we had our own sit-rom-com-thing in the shape of 'Boy Meets Girl' and its leading lady, trans actor Rebecca Root, also played a cisgender female character in the highly acclaimed movie, 'The Danish Girl', which itself is about changing gender.
And so both parties went their separate ways, looking for love with cisgender folk who do have in their possession the meaty bits that make the difference.
Despite more trans characters on screen recently, they've often been played by cisgender actors (The Danish Girl, Transparent and Coronation Street).
The petition argues that white cisgender gay man Danny Jeremy Irvinee) is presented as the hero while other transgender and ethnic minority cast members appear secondary, despite being a crucial part of Stonewall's history.
It would be ridiculous, as well as boorish, to say that Caitlyn Jenner's gender dysphoria, when she was Bruce, was just like cisgender discomfort with beauty myths.
To some younger activists, it seems obvious that anyone who objects to such changes is simply clinging to the privilege inherent in being cisgender, a word popularized in the nineteen-nineties to mean any person who is not transgender.
Here at Unplanned Parenthood, if you're married to a heterosexual cisgender person of the opposite sex, you're in luck.
Each portrait offers a glimpse into what Melamed, a cisgender woman, describes as "a moment of total humbleness" amid the flux of transition.
