Citations:cissplaining

See also: Citations:cissplain

English citations of cissplaining and cisplaining

"(neologism) the act of condescendingly explaining transgender issues (as a cis person) to a trans person"

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• 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.

• 2015 March 15, Stephanie Mott, “Cisplaining, Mind-Reading and Other Mystic Powers of Anti-Trans Experts”, in The Huffington Post‎^[1], retrieved 2016-10-21:

  In the same way, cisplaining is when a cisgender person (someone who is not transgender) assumes to have more knowledge about what it’s like to be transgender than a transgender person does... The ones who cisplain often say that a person's gender is defined by their biological birth sex.

• 2016 September 10, Ryan Lepic, “Lexical blends and lexical patterns in English and in American Sign Language”, in Jenny Audring, Francesca Masini, Wendy Sandler, editors, Online Proceedings of the Tenth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting‎^[2], retrieved 2016-10-21, page 105:

  Here as well, with mansplain and whitesplaining, we see that the relatively more-established blend mansplaining serves as the basis for the formation of other blends referring to other kinds of privilege. This pattern has been extended not only to form whitesplaining 'white condescension', but also yields other new words, including straightsplaining 'heterosexual condescension', cissplaining 'cisgendered condescension', and geeksplaining 'over-explaining to assumed non-experts'.

• 2018, J. Ward, The 2 Methods Gatekeepers and the Exiled Queers, in D'Lane Compton, Tey Meadow, Kristen Schilt, Other, Please Specify: Queer Methods in Sociology (→ISBN), page 65:

  The term has since been expanded to describe other forms of epistemic arrogance and microaggression, as expressed by the terms whitesplaining, blacksplaining, cissplaining, and so forth.

• 2021, Zoë Playdon, The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience, page 230:

  Pseudo-medicine, the law and now sexual politics were engaged in what might be termed “cisplaining,” an appropriation and representation of trans lives that was to become increasingly prevalent in the 1980s. Nowhere was cisplaining more evident than in gender identity clinics.