cissupremacy
English
Alternative forms
- cis-supremacy
Etymology
cis- + supremacy
Noun
cissupremacy (uncountable)
- (LGBT, neologism) The ideology that regards cis people as superior to trans people, or diminishes the rights, concerns, etc. of trans people.
- 2012, "OWS Must Resist Cis-Supremacy and Trans-Misogyny", in Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement (eds. Amy Schrager Lang & Daniel Lang/Levitsky), page 129:
- To fight this systemic oppression — including transphobia, cis-centrism, cis-supremacy and trans-misogyny — it is essential we support the self-determination of all people oppressed by coercive, non-consensual gender assignments.
- 2015, Aryeh Conrad, "Towards a Truer Representation: Transphobic Casting Politics and the Cis-Gaze in Film", paper submitted to the University of Puget Sound, page 10:
- Cisgender directors and writers cannot be the judge of what an authentic trans portrayal looks like because of their socialization in cissupremacy.
- 2016, Nora Berenstain, "Epistemic Exploitation", Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, Volume 3, Number 22 (2016), page 570:
- In that context where cissexism and cissupremacy are the oppressions in question, a cisgender woman would not count as a marginalized person.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:cissupremacy.
- 2012, "OWS Must Resist Cis-Supremacy and Trans-Misogyny", in Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement (eds. Amy Schrager Lang & Daniel Lang/Levitsky), page 129:
Related terms
- cissupremacist