How to Use cisgender in a Sentence

cisgender

adjective
  • In this case, the drug had not been tested in cisgender women.
    — Michele Cohen Marill, Wired, 10 June 2020
  • But cisgender girls should have the right to compete and succeed, too.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Segovia, who lives in Houston with her trans partner and trans kid, is cisgender.
    — Jake Bittle, The New Republic, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Underwear designed for cisgender women may have lace or satin that hug the hips.
    — Laken Brooks, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021
  • Elliot Page coming out as trans isn’t about cisgender people at all.
    — Elly Belle, refinery29.com, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The small group of clinicians who wrote the first Standards of Care were all cisgender.
    — New York Times, 15 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
  • Even after three years, though, transgender women still tended to have more strength than cisgender women.
    — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Being a cisgender white male, there has never been much of a threat to my bodily autonomy.
    — Melissa Matthews, SELF, 3 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • The culture was overwhelmingly white, cisgender, and male, and the work was exhausting.
    — Sara B. Franklin, Bon Appétit, 26 May 2021
  • There’s a long history of cisgender actors playing trans roles and winning awards for those performances.
    — Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, refinery29.com, 19 Aug. 2022
  • However, when the show went to Broadway, the role was depicted as a gay, cisgender female.
    — Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Meanwhile, research shows trans people are more than four times as likely to be victims of violent crime as cisgender people.
    — Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • If so, Texas will become the 10th state to ban trans student-athletes from competing with cisgender kids.
    — Dawn Ennis, Forbes, 16 Oct. 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
  • There’s one cisgender male survivor, Yorick Brown (Ben Schnetzer).
    — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Proponents contended that the measure was necessary to protect the rights of cisgender girls and women in school sports.
    — NBC News, 13 Apr. 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
  • In fact, the vast majority of female athletes are cisgender, as are the vast majority of winners.
    — Jack Turban, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Berry is not the only cisgender actor to turn down the role of a transgender character after first considering it.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 7 July 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • Vanya is a cisgender woman, but, sources told Variety there aren’t currently plans to change the character’s gender.
    — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 4 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • 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

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