cislate

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Definition of cislate

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verb

To simplify or 'translate' (transgender people, experiences, or concepts) into words, narratives, and concepts that cisgender people can understand.

“The purpose of this section is to translate – or perhaps more accurately to cislate – and simplify trans language to a cis(-assumed) audience.”
“Many of us also distill ourselves into descriptors that we think they might understand or accept, doing the cislating for them through “how” we participate. And it is to the detriment of their work not to consider how their other […] Speaking of cislating, one of the things I am tired of reading is long and often static, inaccurate, problematic, limiting terminology sections in every paper and book that includes TGNC people's stories.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

From replacing the trans- part of translate with cis-; coined by T.J. Jourian.

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