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  2. Cisgender - Wikipedia

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    The word cisgender (often shortened to cis; sometimes cissexual) describes a person whose gender identity corresponds to their sex assigned at birth, i.e., someone who is not transgender. [ 1][ 2][ 3] The prefix cis- is Latin and means on this side of. The term cisgender was coined in 1994 as an antonym to transgender, and entered into ...

  3. Pansexuality - Wikipedia

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    Pansexuality is sexual, romantic, or emotional attraction towards people of all genders, or regardless of their sex or gender identity. [ 1][ 2] Pansexual people may refer to themselves as gender-blind, asserting that gender and sex are not determining factors in their romantic or sexual attraction to others. [ 3][ 4] Pansexuality is sometimes ...

  4. Cisgenderism - Wikipedia

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    Cisgenderism. Cisgenderism or cissexism is an ideology that challenges people's gender identities and thus leads to discrimination against gender variant people. It is systematic, and reflected in culture and the practices of legal authorities. Cisgenderism includes normative ideas about gender, which lead to the exclusion of intersex people ...

  5. Cisnormativity - Wikipedia

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    Cisnormativity is a form of cisgenderism, an ideology which promotes various normative ideas about gender, to the invalidation of individuals' own gender identities, analogous to heterosexism or ableism . Cisnormativity manifests in speech as a separation of cisgender and transgender people where cisgender individuals are considered "normal ...

  6. Trans woman - Wikipedia

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    A trans woman (short for transgender woman) is a woman who was assigned male at birth. Trans women have a female gender identity and may experience gender dysphoria (distress brought upon by the discrepancy between a person's gender identity and their sex assigned at birth). [ 1] Gender dysphoria may be treated with gender-affirming care .

  7. Heteropatriarchy - Wikipedia

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    Heteropatriarchy is a facet of popular feminist analysis used to explain modern hierarchical social structure, which is dependent upon, and includes, the perspective of gender roles, based on a system of interlocking forces of power and oppression. It is said to be commonly understood, in this context, that men typically occupy the highest ...

  8. List of gender identities - Wikipedia

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    The term may be used as "an umbrella term, encompassing several gender identities, including intergender, agender, xenogender, genderfluid, and demigender." [ 21] Some non-binary identities are inclusive, because two or more genders are referenced, such as androgyne/androgynous, intergender, bigender, trigender, polygender, and pangender. [ 26 ...

  9. Cambridge Dictionary expands its definition of 'woman' to ...

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    Cambridge Dictionary has expanded its definition of the word "woman" to be inclusive of transgender women. In addition to the longtime definition of the word, "an adult female human being," in the ...