Word of the Day – Cisgender

• Noun:  Cisgender
  1. a word that applies to the vast majority of people, describing a person who is not transgender. If a doctor announces, “It’s a girl!” in the delivery room based on the child’s body and that baby grows up to identify as a woman, that person is cisgender.
  2.  actual gender
  3. The rejection of the belief that your gender can change by merely *thinking* that you’re a different gender.

•  Synonyms:
  1. nontransgender

• Usage:

 “Someone who most likely had never heard the word “cisgender” until he or she read this.” ~~  One of the answers in the quiz linked below

• Encountered:
  • A quiz, Test Your Knowledge of Sexual Difference,  in the humor section of The New Yorker

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