cishetero

cishetero

English

Etymology

cis- +‎ hetero

Adjective

cishetero (comparative more cishetero, superlative most cishetero)

1. (informal) Cisgender and heterosexual.
   • 2019, "Alyia", in Gender Identity, Sexuality and Autism: Voices from Across the Spectrum (eds. Eva A. Mendes & Meredith R. Maroney), page 119:

     There's also a lot of pressure to behave or conform to cishetero standards, but it's okay to be diverse, have differences in nuance.

   • 2020, Alex Iantaffi, Gender Trauma: Healing Cultural, Social, and Historical Gendered Trauma, page 112:

     This framework does not impact only cishetero men and women.

   • 2021, Emily Anne Parker, Elemental Difference and the Climate of the Body, page 64:

     […] while men can and should worship the cishetero fantasy of Playboy in which what it means to be a Man is to be effortlessly orgasmic and heterosexually dominating.

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

Synonyms

• cishet (informal)
• cisheterosexual