Citations:cissplaining

"(neologism) 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.
 * 2018, J. Ward, The 2 Methods Gatekeepers and the Exiled Queers, in D'Lane Compton, Tey Meadow, Kristen Schilt, Other, Please Specify: Queer Methods in Sociology (ISBN 9780520289277), page 65:
 * The term has since been expanded to describe other forms of epistemic arrogance and microaggression, as expressed by the terms whitesplaining, blacksplaining, cissplaining, and so forth.
 * 2021, Zoë Playdon, The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience, page 230:
 * Pseudo-medicine, the law and now sexual politics were engaged in what might be termed “cisplaining,” an appropriation and representation of trans lives that was to become increasingly prevalent in the 1980s. Nowhere was cisplaining more evident than in gender identity clinics.
 * 2021, Zoë Playdon, The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience, page 230:
 * Pseudo-medicine, the law and now sexual politics were engaged in what might be termed “cisplaining,” an appropriation and representation of trans lives that was to become increasingly prevalent in the 1980s. Nowhere was cisplaining more evident than in gender identity clinics.