cissplaining
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of condescendingly explaining transgender issues (as a cis person) to a trans person.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "-For me what matters is whether they’d stop if I asked them, or whether I’d get this outburst of cisplaining!"
- "I often thought that as a straight, cisgender woman, maybe activism “wasn't my place” and certainly didn't want to fall into the trap of “cisplaining,” if you get my meaning."
- "Nowhere was cisplaining more evident than in gender identity clinics."