Editing Cisgender (section)

==== 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>