Define Cis Meaning

Short for "cisgender" (opposite of "transgender"), used to describe someone whose gender identity matches their anatomical gender at birth.

Occasionally used derogatorily.

Cisgender (opposite for transgender). People who like the gender they were born with.

Short for cisgender. Someone whose gender is the same as the gender they were assigned at birth. Not transgender.

another word for straight

someone who is not transgender. someone who agrees with the gender they were assigned at birth. not a slur or derogatory word, just a word with a non-offensive definition.

I term used by the transgender lobby is describe women who have had femininity pushed down their throat since birth. They claim being oppressed by hierarchical, limiting gender roles is a PRIVILEGE! These term is misogynist because it erases women's lived reality in favour of men ("transwomen").

A Latin prefix, meaning "the same as". Usually used either in chemistry to denote certain types of molecules, or to describe cisgender people who identify as the gender they were assigned at birth. Cisgender is opposed to transgender, or not identifying with the gender you were assigned at birth.

Being cisgender comes with extreme privilege, and implies that the person has never faced the kind of discrimination and prejudice that trans people experience on a daily basis. Cisgender people will never be able to understand being transgender, and are always either explicitly or implicitly transphobic, and should learn, do research, and listen to trans people about their experiences.

Confidential Informant; Any individual under the direction of a police officer who furnishes information about criminal activity with or without compensation; works under direction of the department; different from other concerned citizens or complainants not working under department direction and not party to the investigation itself.

Defines Central Illinois. Coined by two private audience improv comics/freestyle rappers known as "My 2 Dads" or "M2D" at Eastern Illinois University in 2001

Commonwealth of Independent States; putative successor to the USSR, except that the Baltic Republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania never joined. Contrary to another definition of CIS at the Urban Dictionary, the CIS does not stand for "Communist Independent States." Moreover, that definition has the CIS existing BEFORE 1991, and includes Kazakhstan as "not officially part of the Soviet Union." Kazakhstan was, in fact, one of the 15 republics of the USSR until 1991.

The CIS came into being December 1991. Mostly consists of regularly scheduled conferences of foreign ministers and defense ministers.

In 1995, members Belarus and Russia created the Commonwealth of Sovereign Republics (CSR).