ciswoman

See also: cis woman and cis-woman

English

Etymology

From cis +‎ woman or cis- +‎ woman.

Noun

ciswoman (plural ciswomen)

1. (sometimes proscribed) Alternative spelling of cis woman
   • 2010, Holly Kearl, Stop Street Harassment: Making Public Places Safe and Welcoming for Women, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 57:

     Not only do people harass and attack transwomen for being who they are: transwomen also face scrutiny from both ciswomen and cismen over “what” they are.

   • 2015, K. Lesnik-Oberstein, Rethinking Disability Theory and Practice:

     The origin of the embryo is no longer intercourse of a ciswoman and a cisman, but a technological procedure.