cishet

cishet

A heterosexual person who identifies with the gender assigned to them at birth. The word combines "cisgender" with "heterosexual," pronounced "sis-het." What, I can't be an ally just because I'm cishet? Come on now.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • heteroflexible
  • (all) het up
  • be all het up
  • be het up
  • het up
  • play the gender card
  • get (all) het up
  • in the closet
  • roulette
  • Vatican roulette
References in periodicals archive
Is it "an attempt to dispense, once and for all, with the cishet able-bodied white male?"Does it represent "everything that is wrong with today's world," or is it "the only thing that will save us"?
What They Talk About When They Talk About Intersectionality
"Fortunately," continues Elise, "our reemergence is coming at a time when cishet (a term meaning straight people who aren't trans) Natives are also reclaiming their ways of being in this world that were ripped away.
QUEERING THE MOVEMENT: TWO SPIRITS ARE RECLAIMING THEIR COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN THE BATTLE TO PROTECT TURTLE ISLAND
It's still a mainly cishet [cisgender and heterosexual] white male community, and I don't see that changing until the ambitions of the movement changes.
Checking Humanism's PRIVILEGE AND PULSE: An Interview with AHA Social Justice Coordinator SINCERE KIRABO
I've written a previous article regarding Stonewall, more specifically the horrendous 2015 movie that I recommend you never watch, which ran in the June 2016 issue, and while I did mention some of the history of Stonewall, I didn't go into as much detail as I think it would require to show cishets that they don't need a pride event of their own.
The beacon bit. A youth perspective