cisheterosexual

cisheterosexual

English

Etymology

cis- +‎ heterosexual

Adjective

cisheterosexual (comparative more cisheterosexual, superlative most cisheterosexual)

1. Cisgender and heterosexual.
   • 2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, page 162:

     A jock might be queer, but his performance of masculinity fits so comfortably within the cisheterosexual norms that he is assumed to be straight.

   • 2020, Charlie McNabb, Queer Adolescence: Understanding the Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual Youth, page 43:

     This is sadly common; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth experience trauma at higher rates than their cisheterosexual peers.

   • 2020, Arunima Ray, "Thinking The Body, Figuring (The) Woman: Religion, caste, gender, and identity in literary representations", in Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance, Margins and Extremism (eds. Goutam Karmakar, Nasima Islam, & Sk Sagir Ali), unnumbered page:

     In such an India, two things are of utmost priority: land and an heir (preferably a cisheterosexual, masculine male) to inherit it.

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

Synonyms

• cishet (informal)
• cishetero (informal)