Editing Cisgender (section)

=== Coinage ===

==== German ====
Marquis Bey states that "proto-cisgender discourse" arose in German in 1914, when [[Ernst Burchard]] introduced the cis/trans distinction to [[sexology]] by contrasting "''cisvestitismus'', or a type of inclination to wear gender-conforming clothing, [...] with ''transvestitismus'', or cross-dressing."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bey |first=Marquis |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1290721475 |title=Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender |publisher=Duke University Press |year=2022 |isbn=9781478018445 |location=Durham |pages=29 |chapter=Heart of Cisness |oclc=1290721475}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Burchard |first1=Ernst |title=Lexikon des gesamten Sexuallebens |date=1914 |publisher=Adler-Verlag GmbH |location=Berlin |page=32 |url=https://portal.dnb.de/bookviewer/view/1098541251#page/32/mode/2up |access-date=22 June 2023 |language=de |quote=Cisvestitismus, die Neigung, die Kleidung einer anderen Altersstufe, Volks- oder Berufsklasse des gleichen Geschlechts zum Zwecke sexueller Entspannung anzulegen, dem Transvestitismus verwandt.}}</ref> German [[sexology|sexologist]] [[Volkmar Sigusch]] used the term ''cissexual'' ({{lang|de|zissexuell}} in German) in his two-part 1991 article "{{lang|de|Die Transsexuellen und unser nosomorpher Blick}}" ("Transsexuals and our nosomorphic view"); in 1998, he said he had coined the term there.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sigusch |first=Volkmar |author-link=Volkmar Sigusch |date=February 1998 |title=The Neosexual Revolution |journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior |volume=27 |issue=4 |pages=331–359 |doi=10.1023/A:1018715525493 |pmid=9681118 |s2cid=25826510}}</ref>

==== English ====
The term ''cisgender'' was coined in English in 1994 in a [[Usenet]] newsgroup about transgender topics<ref name="aha" /> as Dana Defosse, then a graduate student, sought a way to refer to non-transgender people that avoided marginalizing transgender people or implying that transgender people were an [[Other (philosophy)|other]].<ref name="Defosse2023"/> John Hollister used it that same year. In 1995, Carl Buijs used it, apparently coining it independently.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cava |first=Peter |date=2016 |title=Cisgender and Cissexual |url=http://www.petercava.com/uploads/2/3/1/9/23191072/cava_cisgender_and_cissexual.pdf |access-date=June 22, 2024 |website=The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Matthews |first=Donna Lynn |date=May 1999 |title=Definitions |url=http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/tg_def.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000524175329/http://cydathria.com/ms_donna/tg_def.html |archive-date=May 24, 2000 |access-date=2024-06-22 |website=cydathria.com}}</ref>