cisgender
cisgender Lexical Profile
cisgender Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender corresponds with their sex assigned at birth.
"The sociological study compared the healthcare experiences of cisgender and transgender patients."
• noun
A person whose gender identity corresponds with the sex assigned to them at birth.
"While the term is sometimes used as a noun in informal writing, style guides recommend using 'cisgender person' instead."
Word Nuance & Usage
'Cisgender' is overwhelmingly preferred as an adjective (e.g., 'a cisgender woman') rather than as a countable noun ('a cisgender'), as the nominal use is often considered awkward or objectifying in formal and sensitive discourse.
• Rhymes for cisgender
Word Origin & Etymology
Coined in the 1990s by combining the Latin prefix cis- ('on this side of', the morphological opposite of trans- 'across') with the English word gender, following the earlier German term zisgeschlechtlich introduced by sexologist Volkmar Sigusch in 1991.