cishet

Last weekend I was on Facebook taking part in a conversation about dating sites when someone called me a cishet, in a sneering tone.

Even in death, the way we are spoken about by the mainstream cishet world is traumatizing and violent. Even in death, trans women of color cannot escape the trauma of colonialism and genocide.

While children can be born to any kind of parent and situation, unless drastic measures are taken, they will be raised in an overwhelmingly cisgendered and heterosexual (cishet) world. Cishet children and adults’ identities are affirmed by media, legal documents, population majority, history and other depictions of assumed cis-ness and heterosexuality.

[…] it reinforces the problematic notion that 'true' feminism belongs to cishet white abled feminists; […]