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"ref": "2019 January 17, James Acaster: Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999, spoken by James Acaster",
"text": "Oh yeah, because you know who's been long overdue a challenge? The trans community. Oh, they've had their guard down for too long if you ask me. They'll all be checking their privilege on the way home now thanks to you, you brave little cis boy!",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2019 September 24, Johnathan Van Ness, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love, HarperCollins, pages 117–118",
"text": "The reality is that LGBTQ+ people face challenges at disproportionally higher rates than their straight counterparts — drug use, sex work, and financial instability can be an unfortunate result. My privilege as a young cis white man whose parents weren't going to let me drown afforded me the ability to make those mistakes and live to talk about it.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Cisgender (or sometimes cissexual): not trans (transgender or transsexual) nor non-binary."
],
"links": [
[
"Cisgender",
"cisgender"
],
[
"cissexual",
"cissexual"
],
[
"trans",
"trans"
],
[
"transgender",
"transgender"
],
[
"transsexual",
"transsexual"
],
[
"non-binary",
"non-binary"
]
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/sɪs/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪs"
},
{
"homophone": "sis"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"proscribed"
],
"word": "CIS"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "cisgender",
"word": "cisgenra"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "cisgender",
"word": "cis"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cisgender",
"word": "cis"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "cisgender",
"word": "cis"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "cisgender",
"word": "cis"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "cisgender",
"word": "cis"
}
],
"word": "cis"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": shùnshì vs. shùnshì",
"path": [
"cis"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "cis",
"trace": ""
}
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