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"ref": "2012, Natalie Reed, \"How To Ask A Trans Person Questions Without Being Insensitive About It\", quoted in Benjamin Zimmer, Jane Solomon, & Charles E. Carson, \"Among the New Words\", American Speech, Volume 89, Issue 4 (2014), page 480",
"text": "Don’t ask us about transgenderism only to cissplain how we’re still “really” our birth sex and always will be."
},
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"ref": "2017 November, Madison Jones, “On Allyship”, in What The F, University of Michigan, page 8",
"text": "Instead of whitesplaining, mansplaining, and/or cisplaining, sit back and actually listen to what they are saying without getting defensive.",
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"ref": "2021, Zoë Playdon, The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience, page 234",
"text": "Pop sociology such as Liz Hodgkinson's Bodyshock patronized, cisplained and titillated.",
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"To explain transgender issues, people or behavior to a trans person (as a cis person) in a condescending manner, presuming the listener’s inferior understanding."
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"(colloquial, derogatory, chiefly Internet) To explain transgender issues, people or behavior to a trans person (as a cis person) in a condescending manner, presuming the listener’s inferior understanding."
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},
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"ref": "2017 November, Madison Jones, “On Allyship”, in What The F, University of Michigan, page 8",
"text": "Instead of whitesplaining, mansplaining, and/or cisplaining, sit back and actually listen to what they are saying without getting defensive.",
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"ref": "2021, Zoë Playdon, The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience, page 234",
"text": "Pop sociology such as Liz Hodgkinson's Bodyshock patronized, cisplained and titillated.",
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"(colloquial, derogatory, chiefly Internet) To explain transgender issues, people or behavior to a trans person (as a cis person) in a condescending manner, presuming the listener’s inferior understanding."
],
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"Internet",
"colloquial",
"derogatory"
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