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500 words were granted ultimate legitimacy this week. Among others, "cisgender" was added to the Oxford English Dictionary, and it's defined by the book as “designating a person whose sense of ...

Cisgender means the person belongs to the gender he was born into. ... Around 500 new words have made they way into the Oxford English Dictionary Flickr/EMDOT 'Cisgender', 'arre', ...

What does the expression cisgender mean? ... Still, sources trace the word “cisgender” back to the mid-90s, according to Oxford English Dictionary, which officially ...

Small win for the trans community as ‘cisgender’ is added to the Oxford English Dictionary Nicole Morley Published Jul 4, 2015, 11:45am | Updated Dec 11, 2019, 11:14am ...

"It took years for the term to take off, and it was not until 2016 that it entered both the Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster Dictionary," the author writes. I coined the term ...

Cisgender first became popular in the late 1990s, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, and refers to people whose gender identity corresponds to their sex registered at birth.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as an adjective and says it is: "Designating a person whose sense of personal identity and gender corresponds to his or her sex at birth; of or relating to ...

Elon Musk has determined "cis" and "cisgender" to be slurs that violate Twitter's harassment policies and subject to a temporary ... “The Oxford English dictionary lists it as not a slur.

Nevertheless, its general acceptance and endurance as a term and concept was acknowledged when it was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2015. Cisgender relates specifically to gender ...

Cisgender first found legitimacy among lexicographers last summer, when the Oxford English Dictionary added an entry for the word, which OED traced to the late 1990s.

On Wednesday, Merriam-Webster caught up to speed with two words people have been using to describe their gender identity for at least a decade, adding "cisgender" and "genderqueer" to its unabridged ...