ciswoman

See also: cis woman and cis-woman

English

Etymology

From cis +‎ woman or cis- +‎ woman.

Noun

ciswoman (plural ciswomen)

  1. (sometimes proscribed) Alternative spelling of cis woman.
    • 2010, Holly Kearl, Stop Street Harassment: Making Public Places Safe and Welcoming for Women, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 57:
      Not only do people harass and attack transwomen for being who they are: transwomen also face scrutiny from both ciswomen and cismen over “what” they are.
    • 2015, K. Lesnik-Oberstein, Rethinking Disability Theory and Practice:
      The origin of the embryo is no longer intercourse of a ciswoman and a cisman, but a technological procedure.
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