cissplain

== English == === Alternative forms === cis-splain, cisplain === Etymology === From cis +‎ -splain, after mansplain. === Verb === cissplain (third-person singular simple present cissplains, present participle cissplaining, simple past and past participle cissplained) (colloquial, derogatory, chiefly Internet slang) To explain transgender issues, people or behavior to a trans person (as a cis person) in a condescending manner, presuming the listener’s inferior understanding. 2012, Natalie Reed, "How To Ask A Trans Person Questions Without Being Insensitive About It", quoted in Benjamin Zimmer, Jane Solomon, & Charles E. Carson, "Among the New Words", American Speech, Volume 89, Issue 4 (2014), page 480: Don’t ask us about transgenderism only to cissplain how we’re still “really” our birth sex and always will be. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cissplain. ==== Coordinate terms ==== femsplain mansplain whitesplain womansplain straightsplain ==== Related terms ==== cissplainer cissplaining