Citations:cissplain

English citations of cissplain and cisplain

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  • 2010 May 31, Nancy, “How to deal with being racist”, in Sick Sad World[1], retrieved 2012-09-18:
    Don't mansplain, whitesplain, straightsplain, cissplain, etc. Respect people’s right to self-define.
  • 2010 November 4, Garland Grey, quoting a letter, “Grey Areas: Sad, Mopey Post Election Edition”, in Tiger Beatdown[2], retrieved 2012-09-18:
    But still, I get frustrated when cis people try to cissplain to me basic things about gender and transness that I already know, or ignore repeated requests to call me a “trans woman” rather than a “male-to-female transsexual”, or tell me that they “understand” what it must be like for me because this one time in school somebody called them a member of the opposite sex and that made them cry, or whatever.
  • 2011 January 7, fireofanger, “Textbook cissexism!”, in Anger Is Justified[3], retrieved 2012-09-18:
    No. It’s not. Quit trying to cissplain at me. And don’t laugh at my need not to be known as my assigned sex.
  • 2012, Natalie Reed, "How To Ask A Trans Person Questions Without Being Insensitive About It", quoted in Benjamin Zimmer, Jane Solomon, & Charles E. Carson, "Among the New Words", American Speech, Volume 89, Issue 4 (2014), page 480:
    Don’t ask us about transgenderism only to cissplain how we’re still “really” our birth sex and always will be.
  • 2015 February 2, Meghan Daum, “Remember political correctness? It's back, frothing at the mouth and at hurricane force”, in Los Angeles Times[4], retrieved 2016-10-21:
    A few weeks ago, when I wrote a column about the suicide of a transgender teenager, I was pilloried on Twitter for "cisplaining."
  • 2015 March 15, Stephanie Mott, “Cisplaining, Mind-Reading and Other Mystic Powers of Anti-Trans Experts”, in The Huffington Post[5], retrieved 2016-10-21:
    In the same way, cisplaining is when a cisgender person (someone who is not transgender) assumes to have more knowledge about what it’s like to be transgender than a transgender person does... The ones who cisplain often say that a person's gender is defined by their biological birth sex.
  • 2016, Michele Angello, Ali Bowman, Raising the Transgender Child: A Complete Guide for Parents, Families, and Caregivers (Seal Press, →ISBN):
    What do people mean when they say something or someone is “transphobic” or “transmisogynistic” or when they sarcastically say, “Thanks for cissplaining”? These words and phrases express the feeling of being marginalized at the hands of someone who has privilege. If you are white, college educated, male, ablebodied, and middle or upper class, you have privilege, whether you are aware of it or not. That privilege can stand between you and your ability to understand and ...
  • 2017, Tuesday G. Meadows, "Becoming Me", LinQ, August 2017, page 8:
    I will speak out and not compromise one little bit with those who try to cisplain my life to me.
  • 2017, Madison Jones, "On Allyship", What The F (University of Michigan), November 2017, page 8:
    Instead of whitesplaining, mansplaining, and/or cisplaining, sit back and actually listen to what they are saying without getting defensive.
  • 2021, Zoë Playdon, The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience, page 234:
    Pop sociology such as Liz Hodgkinson's Bodyshock patronized, cisplained and titillated.
  • 2022, Mia Fournier Pereira, "Dissident Epistemologies: Dialogues around an Affective Research Experience", Journal of International Women's Studies, Volume 23, Issue 2, February 2022, page 50:
    I like to call it transplaining, in response to the usual mansplaining and cisplaining voices that write trans* history.