Meaning & use
cisgender
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Describing a person whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth.
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As a cisgender woman, she had never had to explain her gender identity to strangers.
The study compared the experiences of cisgender and transgender employees in the workplace.
A note on using this word
"Cis-" is a Latin prefix meaning "on this side of," forming a direct linguistic counterpart to "trans-," meaning "across" or "on the other side of."
Words with an opposite meaning
transgender
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