cisgender

Examples of cisgender in the following topics:

• Gender as a Spectrum and Transgender Identities

  • Viewing gender as a spectrum allows us to perceive the rich diversity of genders, from trans- and cisgender to genderqueer and agender.
  • In Western cultures, those who identify with the gender that was assigned to them at birth based on their biological sex (for example, they are assigned male at birth and continue to identify as a boy) are called cisgender.
  • Transgender is independent of sexual orientation; transgender people may identify as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, asexual, or any other kind of sexuality, just like cisgender people do.

• Discrimination Based on Sex and Gender

  • The related term "cissexism" refers to the assumption that transgender people are inferior to cisgender people.
  • Consequently, they face even greater obstacles than white transgender individuals and cisgender members of their own race.

• Gender and Sociology

  • Even people who identify as cisgender (identifying with the sex they were assigned at birth) and straight (attracted to the opposite sex) face repercussions if they step outside of their gender role in an obvious way.

• Development of Gender Identity

  • Those that identify with the gender that corresponds to the sex assigned to them at birth (for example, they are assigned female at birth and continue to identify as a girl, and later a woman) are called cisgender.

• Defining Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

  • Individuals who identify with a role that corresponds to the sex assigned to them at birth (for example, they were born with male sex characteristics, were assigned as a boy, and identify today as a boy or man) are cisgender.