The word cisgender has been used on the internet since at least 1994, when it appeared in the alt.

Using their own car, the pair began offering cisgender and transgender women a free ride home on Saturday nights.

From this position, it's easy to think cisgender (non-trans) actors taking trans roles entirely negative, but well written and researched, it can have benefits.

It does not denote gender identity and may refer to any person, "cisgender" or "transgender", whose behavior falls outside conventional gender norms.

The term cisgender has been coined as an antonym referring to non-transgender people; i.e. those who identify with their gender assigned at birth.

He comes into his gender identity and begins to dress as a man, eventually falling in love with a woman and passing as cisgender to her family.

Hormone therapy does not alter a trans woman's voice once it has masculinized; therefore, trans women who intend to pass as cisgender need to have help with vocal training to feminize their voices.

The transsexual character, played by Peter Outerbridge, struggles throughout the movie to fit in with cisgender (non-transgender) women, and partially performs the song as an act of cathartic defiance and self-empowerment.

Kristen Schilt and Laurel Westbrook define cisgender as a label for "individuals who have a match between the gender they were assigned at birth, their bodies, and their personal identity," complementing transgender.

However, being bissu does not necessarily mean one does not possess only fully functioning male or female sexual organs, or even that one would not be called a cisgender male or female outside of Bugi society.

Helen Boyd, author of My Husband Betty and She's Not the Man I Married, has argued on her blog that cissexual is a less loaded term than cisgender and reflects fewer assumptions about the person's relationship to gender roles and the transgender community.

The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival holds an intention that the festival is a space for womyn-born womyn (also known by some as cisgender or cissexual women), that is women assigned female at birth, raised as girls, and currently identified as women.

Julia Serano has defined cissexual as "people who are not transsexual and who have only ever experienced their mental and physical sexes as being aligned," while cisgender is a slightly narrower term for those who do not identify as transgender (a larger cultural category than the more clinical transsexual).

While having been used by trans activists for some time, the term "cisgender privilege" has recently appeared in the academic literature and is defined there as the "set of unearned advantages that individuals who identify as the gender they were assigned at birth accrue solely due to having a cisgender identity."