Studies that work to expose the heteronormative and cisnormative assumptions built into many children’s texts, for example, are likely to draw on critical approaches that were developed within feminist criticism in order to analyze the “nor-male” order of patriarchy.
This erasure reflects the priorities, biases, and oversights of writers and publishers who function in a cisnormative system, one in which people are assumed to be cissexual.
These results together suggest the occurrence of a structural form of racial discrimination, resulting in increased harassment and discrimination toward this specific group, and rendering invisible the very real forms of cisnormative and heteronormative persecution occurring in Mexico today (as documented by organizations such as Human Rights Watch).
2012, Jen Roberton & Emily Milton, "Cisnormative assumptions and queer sex", The Strand (Victoria University), Volume 55, Issue 5, 29 October 2012, page 4:
Cisnormative assumptions are tied in with discourses surrounding HIV and STIs.
More importantly, portraying trans prisoners as inherently devious, manipulative, and fraudulent not only serves to completely denigrate their legitimate claims to healthcare, but further acts to buttress the historically entrenched, cisnormative presumption at law that trans desires are a priori suspicious.
Untitled (Dyketactics Revisited) seeks to conjure a “space where bodies exist independent of social codes,” not only patriarchal and heteronormative codes but also cisnormative ones.
2013, Bailey Dineen, "My Queer Rage", The Cornell Daily Sun (Cornell University), Volume 130, Number 34, 11 October 2013, page 7:
In a cisnormative world, I could not comprehend the humiliation I felt, at eight years old, when I received a “girl” bike for Christmas, because everything around me reflected the experiences of people for whom the color of their bike somehow aligned with their genitalia.
