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cisdude

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From cis- +‎ dude.

Noun

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cisdude (plural cisdudes)

  1. (informal) A cisgender man.
    • 2015, Christina Cauterucci, “Swallow Your Pride”, in Washington City Paper, 5 June - 11 June 2015, page 14:
      The Pride parade in particular is heavily weighted toward cisdudes.
    • 2015, "queerandpresentdanger", quoted in Kelsey Schultz, "Fat activism and collective accountability: from virtual community to embodied coalition", thesis submitted to DePaul University, page 55:
      I’m a 25-year-old fat, brown, queer cisdude.
    • 2017, Michelle, quoted in Megan Sharp, "Women in Punk Creating Queer Identity Spaces: Strategies of Resistance Revisited", thesis submitted the University of Newcastle, page 141:
      In Brighton, a lot of gigs are billed as ‘queer’, I think because we are known as a queer town or something? But like, you turn up and the bands are all cisdudes.

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