Citations:cis-ter

Noun: "alternative form of cister"

 * 2017, Lauren Mulvihill, "Making Friends With Salad", UCC Express (University College Cork), 14 March 2017, page 14:
 * I mean friends as in buddies, pals, broskis and sisters (not just cis-ters).
 * 2017, Sarah Marloff, "They Called Me 'It'", The Austin Chronicle, 14 April 2017, page 18:
 * "Even after legally transitioning ... I would still be expected to get a letter from a mental health professional if I wanted to go up a cup size," explained [Claire] Bow. "Cis-ters just need to sign the consent form. It sometimes feels like I'm expected to prove I'm a real person to everyone in the world, one person at a time."
 * 2018, Lars Stoltzfus-Brown, "Trans-Exclusionary Discourse, White Feminist Failures, And The Women's March on Washington, DC", in Transgressing Feminist Theory and Discourse: Advancing Conversations Across Disciplines (eds. Jennifer C. Dunn & Jimmie Manning), unnumbered page:
 * The next tweet directly mentioning trans issues came two months later, on March 8, when the Women's March page tweeted "We strike for ALL our sisters, not just our cis-ters. There is no room for trans exclusion in this mvt. #DayWithoutAWoman #IStrikeFor" (March 8, 2017).
 * 2018, The Women's Film Festival: Official Program, page 40:
 * We recognize that there is no feminism without intersectionality, and strive to support all our sisters, not just our cis-ters.
 * 2018, Erin Batten-Hicks, "Keep Our State Straight", QNotes, 6 April 2018 - 19 April 2018, page 11:
 * Let's protect our sisters,
 * Nor just our cis-ters
 * 2019, Andrzej, quoted in "Friendship Never Ends", in X: Straight Edge and Radical Sobriety (ed. Gabriel Kuhn), unnumbered page:
 * For me, sisterhood means standing against misogyny; it is not detached from trans struggles, as long as you fight side by side with your sisters, not just your "cis-ters."
 * 2019, Chloe Kennedy, "Girls On Film", Exeposé (University of Exeter), 25 March 2019, page 30:
 * Let's reframe the word 'girl', as a term that is not belittling or childish, but becomes a freeing and uniting term: one that includes all sisters (and not just cis-ters).
 * 2019, Steffi Arkilander, "Gender Equity Means Trans Women's Equity", Patchwork - A Global Women's Health Magazine, page 46:
 * the fight for women's rights needs to include trans women's rights
 * we cannot just advocate for our cis-ters
 * otherwise we are not fighting for equity
 * 2021, Marian Duggan & Hannah Mason-Bish, "A feminist exploration of misogyny and hate crime", in Misogyny as Hate Crime (eds. Irene Zempi & Jo Smith), unnumbered page:
 * Trans women in particular share the gendered experiences of their cis-ters by being subject to higher rates of sexual assault and abuse.
 * 2021, We Still Demand! (Ottawa Pride 2021 programme), page 37:
 * From Drag cis-ter to non-binary Drag Performer, Erika Steel has been on the scene for 12 years!
 * 2022, "Introduction: Transing Genres", in Trans Representations in Contemporary, Popular Cinema: The Transgender Tipping Point (eds. Niall Richardson & Frances Smith), unnumbered page:
 * As a result, the transfeminist mantra 'support your sisters not just your cis-ters ' was born.