cismasculinity

English

Etymology

cis- +‎ masculinity

Noun

cismasculinity (countable and uncountable, plural cismasculinities)

1. The state or quality of being cismasculine.
   • 2016, matthew heinz, Entering Transmasculinity: The Inevitability of Discourse, unnumbered page:

     For 70 respondents (40 per cent), transmasculinity is unequivocally and qualitatively different from cismasculinity.

   • 2018, Rob Cover, Emergent Identities: New Sexualities, Genders and Relationships in a Digital Era, unnumbered page:

     […] what the production of a new, 'more disruptive' gender identity does is obscure the fact that cismasculinity and cisfemininity are themselves precarious, fluid and complicated.

   • 2021, Meredith Heller, “Drag Performativity”, in Abbie E. Goldberg, Genny Beemyn, editors, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies, unnumbered page:

     In addition, drag performance is not limited to expressions of cismasculinity or cisfemininity.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cismasculinity.

Coordinate terms

• transmasculinity

Related terms

• cismasculine

Translations

Translations

• French: cis-masculinité (fr)