cissplain
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Etymology edit
cis + -splain, after mansplain.
Verb edit
cissplain (third-person singular simple present cissplains, present participle cissplaining, simple past and past participle cissplained)
- (colloquial, derogatory, chiefly Internet) To explain transgender issues, people or behavior to a trans person (as a cis person) in a condescending manner, presuming the listener’s inferior understanding.
- 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.
- 2017 November, Madison Jones, “On Allyship”, in What The F, University of Michigan, 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[1], page 234:
- Pop sociology such as Liz Hodgkinson's Bodyshock patronized, cisplained and titillated.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cissplain.
- 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: