Citations:cisness

Noun: "the quality of being cisgender"

 * 2017, Jazelle Ailith, quoted in Andrea J. Richie, Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, page 284:
 * "Transness as radical thought requires us to realize that conceptualizations of what embodies cisness and transness are predicated on white narratives and logic. And furthermore, it requires us to rid ourselves of this lie that cisness (especially for black and brown people) has ever existed!”
 * 2018, Julian Gill-Peterson, Histories of the Transgender Child, unnumbered page:
 * What's more, the assumed cisness of children during that century means that alongside Val and the other trans children in this book were countless, unnamed others whose experience is still hidden from view.
 * 2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, page 69:
 * Cisgender is assumed to be the “default” identity; mainstream culture is saturated with cisness and cisnormativity.
 * 2020, LJ, "Who Needs Gender?", in Non-Binary Lives: An Anthology of Intersecting Identities (eds. Benjamin Vincent, Jos Twist, Kat Gupta, & Meg-John Barker), page 64:
 * But inevitably, my cisness crumbled, and with it, my belief in the usefulness of gender itself.
 * 2020, Tom Fitzgerald & Lorenzo Marquez, Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul's Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life, page 185:
 * Queerness asks for, if not demands, a level of presentation higher than that of straight or cisgender folks, who don't, after all, have to come out about their straightness or cisness.
 * 2020, Ben Vincent, Non-Binary Genders: Navigating Communities, Identities, and Healthcare, unnumbered page:
 * By this, I mean with their gender identity, cisness and so on.
 * 2020, Nestor M. Davidson & Eduardo M. Peñalver, "The Fair Housing Act's Original Sin: Administrative Discretion and the Persistence of Segregation", in Perspectives on Fair Housing (eds. Susan M. Wachter, Vincent J. Reina, & Wendell E. Pritchett), page 156:
 * Umbrella terms have a role, and that role is to encompass the constellation of identities while taking care not to center straightness or cisness.