cissplaining

English

Noun

cissplaining (uncountable)

The act of condescendingly explaining transgender issues (as a cis person) to a trans person.
- 2012, anonymous, "Discuss: LGBT Culture", No Definition (Cambridge Students' Union), Easter 2012, page 30:
  -For me what matters is whether they’d stop if I asked them, or whether I’d get this outburst of cisplaining!
- 2015, Victoria Lemay, "Allies must stand for trans teens", QNotes, 16 January 2015 - 29 January 2015, page 4:
  I often thought that as a straight, cisgender woman, maybe activism “wasn't my place” and certainly didn't want to fall into the trap of “cisplaining,” if you get my meaning.
- 2021, Zoë Playdon, The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience‎, page 230:
  Nowhere was cisplaining more evident than in gender identity clinics.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cissplaining.

Translations

Translations

French: cisplaining (fr), cisplication (fr)

Verb

cissplaining

present participle and gerund of cissplain

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