cissplaining

English

Noun

cissplaining (uncountable)

1. The act of condescendingly explaining transgender issues (as a cis person) to a trans person.
   • 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.

   • 2021, Zoë Playdon, The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience‎^[1], page 230:

     Nowhere was cisplaining more evident than in gender identity clinics.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cissplaining.

Translations

Translations

• French: cisplaining (fr), cisplication (fr)

Verb

cissplaining

1. present participle and gerund of cissplain