How to Use cisgender in a Sentence

cisgender

adjective
  • But cisgender girls should have the right to compete and succeed, too.
    Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 25 Feb. 2021
  • In this case, the drug had not been tested in cisgender women.
    Michele Cohen Marill, Wired, 10 June 2020
  • The small group of clinicians who wrote the first Standards of Care were all cisgender.
    New York Times, 15 June 2022
  • As one of the most active trans comics in L.A., Thomas is used to standing out like a sore thumb on most cisgender lineups.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Segovia, who lives in Houston with her trans partner and trans kid, is cisgender.
    Jake Bittle, The New Republic, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Quinn, who has since come out as non-cisgender, had to live in hiding and had to take PTSD medication.
    Kara Alaimo For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 25 May 2022
  • Boxers and briefs created for cisgender men feature more room in the groin and an opening in the front to expedite trips to the urinal.
    Laken Brooks, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021
  • More than half of all those school board members identified as cisgender gay men — including Hoyler, who first ran for the board and lost in 2019.
    Teo Armus, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Underwear designed for cisgender women may have lace or satin that hug the hips.
    Laken Brooks, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021
  • However, when the show went to Broadway, the role was depicted as a gay, cisgender female.
    Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • If so, Texas will become the 10th state to ban trans student-athletes from competing with cisgender kids.
    Dawn Ennis, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2021
  • Elliot Page coming out as trans isn’t about cisgender people at all.
    Elly Belle, refinery29.com, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The culture was overwhelmingly white, cisgender, and male, and the work was exhausting.
    Sara B. Franklin, Bon Appétit, 26 May 2021
  • There’s one cisgender male survivor, Yorick Brown (Ben Schnetzer).
    Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021
  • About one in four of the cisgender women in the study lived with children, but the doctors identified only two cases of monkeypox among them.
    Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • For the most part, cisgender men were simply looking for a way to have good skin and appear less tired in a hyper-competitive workplace.
    Ahmed Zambarakji, Robb Report, 23 June 2021
  • Their risk for stroke or heart attack in the next 10 years was significantly higher than that of cisgender Americans in the same age group.
    NBC News, 16 Nov. 2020
  • The families were upset that transgender girls were competing against the cisgender girls in high school track leagues.
    Jack Turban, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2021
  • At least 30 percent of cisgender men will get it at some point in their lives, and by some estimates, roughly 65 percent of cis-men could develop it.
    Popular Science, 17 Feb. 2021
  • Matherne said cisgender people don’t have to comprehend trans people to be kind.
    Susan Dunne, courant.com, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Proponents contended that the measure was necessary to protect the rights of cisgender girls and women in school sports.
    NBC News, 13 Apr. 2022
  • And many films, even beloved ones, sometimes use cisgender characters to portray trans people, or fall short of depicting the whole story.
    Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Being a cisgender white male, there has never been much of a threat to my bodily autonomy.
    Melissa Matthews, SELF, 3 Aug. 2022
  • And fundamentally the fact that white, straight cisgender men have power in our society hasn’t changed.
    Matt Brennantelevision Editor, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2022
  • After the lawsuit was filed one of the cisgender girls beat a transgender girl who, the suit claimed, supposedly had an unfair advantage.
    Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2021
  • In clinical trials, it was shown to reduce the risk of contracting HIV among men and transgender women by 69% and by 90% in cisgender women.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2022
  • Again, this is creating a hostile environment even among trans youth and their cisgender peers.
    Brad Emons, Detroit Free Press, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Talisa Garcia is also set to star, marking the first time in Disney's history that an openly trans person will play a cisgender role.
    Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Other recent Broadway film-to-stage adaptations, such as Tootsie and Mrs. Doubtfire, have come under fire for their use of cisgender actors in roles that use the idea of a man in a dress as part of their humor.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Studies on cisgender men and migraine, however, could help explain how testosterone might play a role in the frequency of attacks.
    Kirsten Nunez, SELF, 22 June 2022

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