cissexism means bias or prejudice favouring cisgender people; transphobia. It carries an Arena rating of 1014, earned across 85 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, cissexism ranks #666 of 17,138 for Most Incisive Words, #4,550 of 17,128 for Most Ponderous Words, #5,671 of 17,127 for Words That Escaped Their Books, #6,809 of 17,132 for Most Betrayed by Its Sound.
Why “cissexism” is a great word
CISSEXISM — [Noun] The systemic bias that privileges cisgender individuals while marginalizing transgender people. From the Latin-derived prefix cis- ("on this side of") + sexism, it names the architecture of active discrimination. Unlike transphobia, which emphasizes an irrational fear or hatred, or cisnormativity, which describes the foundational presumption of a default identity, cissexism denotes the concrete machinery of that bias in action. It is the administrative violence of a form with only two boxes to check, the stranger's glance that scans a body for incongruence, and the unearned safety of moving through public space unchallenged—the quiet, relentless tax levied on a life for the crime of its truth.
Etymology
From cis- + sexism or cissex(ual) + -ism.
noun
- Bias or prejudice favouring cisgender people; transphobia.e.g.“In that context where cissexism and cissupremacy are the oppressions in question, a cisgender woman would not count as a marginalized person.” — 2016, Nora Berenstain, “Epistemic Exploitation”, in Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, volume 3, number 22, page 570:
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Words closest in meaning
By meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.
- cissexist 81% match — Exhibiting or related to cissexism. vs cissexism →
- cisgenderism 79% match — Attitudes or beliefs that privilege cisgender people or perspectives over transgender ones. vs cissexism →
- cisphobia 72% match — Fear or hatred of cissexuality or cisgenderism, or of cis individuals. vs cissexism →
- cissupremacy 72% match — Ideology that regards cis people as superior to other people (including trans people, nonbinary people, and genderfluid people), or diminishes the rights or interests of those who are not cis. vs cissexism →
- cistemic 71% match — Of or relating to systems that privilege cisgender people and marginalize transgender people. vs cissexism →
- cistem 70% match — A system or societal structure that privileges cisgender people and marginalizes transgender people. vs cissexism →
- cissexuality 70% match — The state, condition, or property of being cissexual. vs cissexism →
- cissy 69% match — A cisgender or cissexual person. vs cissexism →