cistem

Blend of cis +‎ system.

cistem (plural cistems)

1. (LGBT, social sciences, neologism) A system or societal structure that privileges cisgender people and marginalizes transgender people.
   • 2017, Nigel Patel, “Violent cistems: Trans experiences of bathroom space”, in Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, volume 31, number 1, page 52:

     It is this toilet cistem that served to cement the spatially constructed division between man and woman that is still present today.

   • 2019, Kyan Lynch, “The Trans Man and the Warrior Women”, in Transgender Health‎, volume 4, number 1, page 278:

     I can think of no better role model for a transgender individual, particularly one looking to tackle the "cistem" of health care.

   • 2022, Kenan Omercajic, “'Basement Boys' in the All-Gender Bathroom: Investigating Student-Inspired Trans-Activism and White Cisgenderist Barriers to Supporting Trans Students in School”, in Teacher College Record‎, volume 124, number 8, page 229:

     Capital High’s school culture is seemingly accepting to the LGBTQIA+ population, yet it is also one saturated by a white heteropatriarchal cistem, and continued education and activism are required to combat this.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cistem.

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