Citations:cis-centric

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English citations of cis-centric

gender sense

• 2010, Erin Clarke, "Huxford's column unjust, inaccurate", The Miscellany News (Vasser College, Poughkeepsie, New York), Volume 144, Issue 2, 9 December 2010, page 9:

  The Stockholm Consensus was thoroughly researched and had to express intent to be fair for cisgender—meaning "not transgender"—athletes, and although I have personal reservations about cis-centric politics regarding trans people, the fact remains that a group of many qualified people determined that, after physical and chemical correction and legal recognition, a trans woman is not significantly advantaged over a cis woman in regards to gender-based athletic capabilities.

• 2012, Amy Schrager Lang, Daniel Lang/Levitsky, Dreaming in Public: The Building of the Occupy Movement, New Internationalist (→ISBN), page 129:

  ... especially trans women of color, are routinely subject to police profiling) To fight this systemic oppression — including transphobia, cis-centrism, cis-supremacy and trans-misogyny — it is essential we support the self-determination of all people oppressed by coercive, non-consensual gender assignments. Allowing any group or space to define gender by cis-centric standards is intrinsically at odds with gender liberation and trans people's right to autonomous self-determination.

• 2015, E. Evans, The Politics of Third Wave Feminisms: Neoliberalism, Intersectionality, and the State in Britain and the US, Springer (→ISBN), page 154:

  At a discursive level, the use of the term 'all-women shortlist' was felt by one London interviewee who identified as a queer feminist to be essentialist: 'I think probably gender quotas is better than all-women shortlist – it's a bit cis-centric.'17 For this interviewee, it was a term that smacked of cis-privilege and was a term that demonstrated 'a complete ignorance' of the issues faced by those who consider themselves to be women when society does not.

• 2017, Patrizia Gentile, Gary Kinsman, L. Pauline Rankin, We Still Demand!: Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles, UBC Press (→ISBN), page 129:

  In so doing, they again reframed and rearticulated transnormativity in relation to cis-centric homonormativity. Despite its initial heterosexist construction of transnormativity, Metamorphosis provided space for many transmen who defined themselves as gay men. These readers used its pages to seek out other gay transmen with whom to discuss the specific issues they faced, particularly because of their difficulty relating to either mainstream transnormativity's heterosexism or ...

chemistry sense

• 1902, Chemical Society (Great Britain), Journal of the Chemical Society, page 962

  We may further regard the Kekulé formula as the labile form of the cis-centric, since the models readily open out or close in to give one or the other. If this be granted, we at once get rid of the objection that the centric formula implies the existence of optical isomerides, since the Kekulé model could close in in two ways to form two centric models, one the image of the other, and thus produce inactivity. The existence of both cis- and trans-centric formulae is indicated in certain reactions.