{"id":51683,"date":"2015-07-06T18:41:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T00:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/06\/cisgender-enters-the-oxford-english-dictionary.html"},"modified":"2015-07-06T18:41:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T00:41:08","slug":"cisgender-enters-the-oxford-english-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/06\/cisgender-enters-the-oxford-english-dictionary.html","title":{"rendered":""Cisgender" enters the Oxford English Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Which makes sense (the term is bandied about socially for various populations), but is also important.<\/p>\n

Something that's changed in the past half-century is an understanding of the hidden power (often problematic) in having an unnamed "normal" vs a named "something other than normal." Even when the norm is named, it can still an issue (when the name is not used except in exceptional circumstances), but giving it a name, rather than a default THIS IS WHAT IS status is an important step in consideration of diversity<\/i> vs deviancy.<\/i><\/p>\n

I don't expect people to use "cisgendered" in everyday conversation (at least I don't see it coming up in most of the conversations I have), but it's good to have<\/i> the term, I think, when the discussion of gender issues comes up.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I'd just as soon the OED didn't have call to include "twerk" and "Fo'shizzle" in their lexicon, but one can't have everything.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nThe OED’s Recognition of Cisgender Is a Useful Reminder: Everyone Has a Gender Identity<\/a><\/span>
\nWhile Friday marked a historic victory for the LGBTQ community, it turns out there’s another advancement to celebrate: Last week, the Oxford English Dictionary released a list of 500 new entries, and among the more notable additions was cisgender. The word—which is defined as “designating a person whose sense of personal identity matches their gender at…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Which makes sense (the term is bandied about socially for various populations), but is also important. Something that's changed in the past half-century is an understanding of the hidden power (often problematic) in having an unnamed "normal" vs a named "something other than normal." 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