Fromcis- +sexual, by analogy withtranssexual, after the slightly earlier (1991)Germanzissexuell.[1]
cissexual (notcomparable)
- (of a person, uncommon) Having agender identity which matches one'sbirth sex; for example,identifying asmale and having (been born with) malegenitalia.
- Antonym:transsexual
2011, Jes Battis,Homofiles: Theory, Sexuality, and Graduate Studies[1], page25:That we are working on the grounds of ontology seems clear, since the “actually” begins from acissexual primal origin birth moment that cannot be changed but only concealed—Angie is “biologically” once-and-forever Justin.
2013, Kelby Harrison,Sexual Deceit: The Ethics of Passing[2], page13:Ungendering is the process by whichcissexual people start to look for details or evidence that the trans person is no longer living in his/her birth gender.
2016, Em McAvan, “3: Rhetorics of Disgust and Indeterminacy in Transphobic Acts of Violence”, in Tobias Raun, editor,Out Online: Trans Self-Representation and Community Building on YouTube,page54:Comfort is acissexual privilege, ascribed to those who identify with and are socially and institutionally recognizable as the sex they were assigned at birth, thus conforming to a certain kind of gender norm.
having a gender identity which matches one's birth sex
—see alsocisgender- ^Sexologist Volkmar Sigusch states that he originated the term in his 1991 article "Die Transsexuellen und unser nosomorpher Blick" ("Transsexuals and our nosomorphic view").
