cissplain
verbEtymology From cis + -splain, after mansplain.
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Internet, Colloquial, Derogatory To explain transgender issues, people or behavior to a trans person (as a cis person) in a condescending manner, presuming the listener’s inferior understanding.
- Don’t ask us about transgenderism only to cissplain how we’re still “really” our birth sex and always will be.2012, Natalie Reed, "How To Ask A Trans Person Questions Without Being Insensitive About It", quoted in Benjamin Zimmer, Jane Solomon, & Charles E. Carson, "Among the New Words", American Speech, Volume 89, Issue 4 (2014), page 480
- Related terms
- cissplainer, cissplaining
- Coordinate terms
- femsplain, mansplain, whitesplain, womansplain, straightsplain