Within the area of gender studies, people whose gender identity matches the gender assigned at birth are considered cisgender. That is, these subjects do not identify with transgender people. Being cisgender comprises an alignment between gender identity, anatomical sex, and behavior according to anatomical gender. According to statistics, the majority of the population is considered cisgender.
This word contains the prefix “cis” which means “on this side of”, while the prefix “trans” means “on the other side”.
An example of cisgender is when a person at birth, doctors assign the female gender given their anatomical characteristics, this person grows up as a girl and learns to behave as such, feeling satisfied with their gender. This satisfaction and conformity between the socially adjudicated gender and her accepted identity transform her into a cisgender woman.
Part, cisexuality is a term that is derived from the previous one and specifically refers to the genital expression of the admitted gender. Transsexual people have to undergo surgery to change their natural sex for the one where they feel comfortable. While a cisexual subject does not have to go through that, since he is satisfied with the assigned gender.
This expression is important, since it allows you to give a name to what is presented as normal, and in that direction make it visible. Many wonder why they had never heard of this word? This is explained by the heteronormativity that prevails in society, where heterosexuality is normalized against other sexual orientations and identities. Usually society is the one that labels gays, bisexuals, transsexuals, etc. A differentiation that they do not usually use with heterosexuals, since they are not labeled.
