Editing Cisgender (section)

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The word '''''cisgender''''' (often shortened to '''''cis'''''; sometimes '''''cissexual''''') describes a person whose [[gender identity]] corresponds to their [[sex assigned at birth]], i.e., someone who is not ''[[transgender]]''.<ref>{{cite web |date=n.d. |title=cisgender |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cisgender |access-date=March 8, 2021 |website=Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary}}</ref><ref name="Schilt2">{{Cite journal |last1=Schilt |first1=Kristen |last2=Westbrook |first2=Laurel |date=August 2009 |title=Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity: 'Gender Normals,' Transgender People, and the Social Maintenance of Heterosexuality |journal=[[Gender & Society]] |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=440–64 [461] |doi=10.1177/0891243209340034 |s2cid=145354177 | issn = 0891-2432}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Blank |first=Paula |title=Will the Word "Cisgender" Ever Go Mainstream? |language=en-US |work=The Atlantic |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/09/cisgenders-linguistic-uphill-battle/380342/ |access-date=2018-05-13}}</ref> The prefix ''[[wiktionary:cis-|cis-]]'' is Latin and means ''on this side of''. The term ''cisgender'' was coined in 1994 as an [[antonym]] to ''transgender'', and entered into dictionaries starting in 2015 as a result of changes in social discourse about [[gender]].<ref name="oed2">{{cite web |last1=Martin |first1=Katherine |title=New words notes June 2015 |url=http://public.oed.com/the-oed-today/recent-updates-to-the-oed/june-2015-update/new-words-notes-june-2015/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150814051905/http://public.oed.com/the-oed-today/recent-updates-to-the-oed/june-2015-update/new-words-notes-june-2015/ |archive-date=August 14, 2015 |access-date=August 2, 2015 |website=Oxford English Dictionary |publisher=Oxford University Press |df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="aha2">{{Cite web |title=Tracing Terminology {{!}} Perspectives on History {{!}} AHA |url=https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/may-2017/tracing-terminology-researching-early-uses-of-cisgender |access-date=2019-08-01 |website=www.historians.org}}</ref> 

Related concepts are [[cisnormativity]] (the presumption that cisgender identity is preferred or [[Social norm|normal]]) and [[cissexism]] (bias or prejudice favoring cisgender people).