Cissexual

If we want a straight-only event or a "cissexual" event, we should be allowed to have that, no questions asked! ❋ Unknown (2008)

Subscribe to feed linkspam: cis -, cissexism, cissexual ❋ Unknown (2010)

For a cissexual woman who is still learning Trans 101 this was really useful. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I often use the words trans (short for transsexual) – my definition of the term is in my earlier post trans woman (link here) – and cis, short for cissexual. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So a non-passing-as-cissexual binary identified trans person could be oppressed * because* of gender presentation (rather than institutional cissexism) and that would be elided by such categories. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Because being a feminist is – amongst other things – about actively working to bring about a society in which transphobia, cissexism, trans-misogyny, hate speech, discrimination, prejudice and the oppression of transsexual women by cissexual women is no more acceptable than racism, homophobia, ageism, ableism, you name it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I mean, to be real honest, as a gender expression-conforming man, I may well be in some ways cisgender (i definitely think i am cisgender) and possibly cissexual – or at least receiving cissexual privilege. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There's a reason Frank N. Furter is queer in every sense - pansexual instead of gay or straight, a transvestite instead of male, female, cissexual, or transsexual - and his goal the entire movie is to corrupt Janet and Brad. ❋ Alex Blaze (2010)

If one who has crossed some invisible, socially-constructed sex or gender line is said to be transsexual or transgender, someone who has not, who has remained on their assigned “side” of the spectrum, could be described as cissexual or cisgender. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And when the essentialist theories are foregrounded, then the Really Real Issues ™ – the social, legal, cultural and other contexts of being a transsexual person in an overwhelmingly cissexual world – are backgrounded. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That is, the inauthenticity ascribed to transsexuals, regardless of binary identification and presentation, may outweigh cissexual gender non-normativity in actual lived material negative effects. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So distinguishing between cissexual and cisgender is important, and maybe saying cis when you mean cissexual blurs the boundaries a bit. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Coming back to cissexual vs cisgender, this distinction is why, when I use the term ‘cis’, I mean ‘cissexual’, not ‘cisgender’. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And, correlatively, a person who takes to adjective “cis” (whether cisgender or cissexual) is someone for whom assigned gender (/sex) and self-assigned gender (/sex) are in accord. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some cissexuals, particularly in my experience non-normatively gendered andro or butch identified lesbians, focus on cisgender as a term in order to deny they have cissexual privilege. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So someone who is assigned female/woman and identifies as female/woman is cissexual. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My point is that those forms of discrimination are routinely called out by a feminism which then seems content to turn a blind eye to the hate speech spewing from the disproportionately loud mouths of a toxic minority of cissexual women who feel they are entitled to claim feminism as their own exclusive little club. links for 2009-02-15 « Shut Up, Sit Down Says: ❋ Unknown (2009)

What was that about cissexual lesbians being oppressed and therefore unable to oppress transfolk themselves, again? ❋ Unknown (2009)

We [assume] that everyone we meet is cissexual. We never consider that the average person in [the street] might have a [diverse] gender history. ❋ Another Constellation (2009)

person 1: You're [super straight]? person 2: no, i'm [cissexual] person 1: [ok] ❋ F3ggy Fr34k (2021)

"I [identify] as cissexual!" "[Mhm]... and how is that [like real] again?" ❋ Veryuglycarrot (2022)