The dominance
of the cisgender gaze and the desire to shift narratives away from binary formations of gender (male / female) and sexuality (straight / gay) have recently gained greater attention in the discourse around contemporary art.
The actor's biggest strength — his willingness to give himself away completely to a character's physicality — mostly puts to rest questions
of a cisgender man playing a trans woman.
But trans people are seldom given other parts (and if they are, don't get nominated for awards for their «brave» portrayals
of cisgender characters) so the problem persists.
Vega, a transgender, has been quoted as discussing the reality
of cisgender actors (someone whose gender identity corresponds with the sex assigned to them at birth) who have played transgender roles, notably Jared Leto who won an Oscar for his transgender woman with Aids in (The Dallas Buyers Club 2013).
In the last few years there has been an increasing backlash against the continued and nearly universal casting
of cisgender actors in transgender roles, as well as the stereotypical characterizations of trans and non-binary people as portrayed on the big screen.
Overall, data from the various measures indicated that transgender children's responses were indistinguishable from those of two groups
of cisgender children
You are speaking from the standpoint
of cisgendered privilege, and probably didn't go to an Ivy League school anyway, where you would have been taught better.
And things that get right to the heart
of the cisgendered co-parenting double standard.
In Browne v. Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations, 2016 HRTO 62 (Hart), the Tribunal held that the Ontario Human Rights Code does not protect the right
of a cisgendered or gender conforming man [1] to grow a beard.
Similarly, in Barksey v. Four Corners Medical Walk In Clinic / Northwood Medical Clinics Inc., 2016 HRTO 1116 (Pickel), the Tribunal dismissed the complaint
of a cisgendered man.
Not exact matches
And actually, the circles I travel in often discuss other axes
of privilege as well, such as class privilege and
cisgender privilege.
Given that this rests upon outdated
cisgender and heteropatriarchal categories, the very existence
of such would seem to go well beyond a mere microaggression and to be a rather hate - filled and oppressive phenomenon.
Tony Jones and Rod Dreher agreed on a Same - Sex Marriage Blogalogue (and yes, the irony
of two
cisgender straight married men discussing Same Sex Marriage was acknowledged).
To this final set
of people, I would say that you must understand that you come from a place
of privilege, especially if you are a
cisgender heterosexual man.
Too often, any time that those who aren't white or Protestant or straight or
cisgender aren't treated with the same respect as those who ARE, all in the name
of preaching Jesus» message or when it's called out by others and the persecutors claim freedom
of religion, Christian is equated with Privileged
The same people who think only men should be pastors, probably have other (hidden) criteria related to sexuality and gender — in my experience, a majority
of pastors are straight, married,
cisgender men.
In part, it's because I present as an affluent, white,
cisgender woman, and, for the most part, I get to choose when and where and how I share that piece
of who I am.
In light
of a few things that happened
of late — the Supreme Court's ruling on marriage for same - sex couples, the addition
of the word
cisgender into the Oxford English Dictionary, the rise
of the transgender movement, with Germany leading the way for parents to register their baby as something other than just boy or girl, the increase in stay - at home dads and egalitarian marriages, universities recognizing a third gender, the desire by some to be called they versus he or she, the declaration that 2015 is the year
of the gender - neutral baby, it's clear we are moving toward a society that is busting up traditional views
of gender and what men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers look and act like.
In light
of a few things that happened
of late — the Supreme Court's ruling on marriage for same - sex couples, the addition
of the word
cisgender into the Oxford English Dictionary, the rise
of the transgender movement, with Germany leading the way for parents to register their baby as something other than just boy or -LSB-...]
Way too many straight,
cisgender men have said this to me, in that elbow - to - ribs guffaw kind
of voice people normally whip out at bachelor parties and trips to Hooters, when they'd see my son reach for my breasts when he was a slightly older baby.
We first hear
of out LGBTQ parents around the time
of World War II, mostly in the context
of cases that denied them child custody after divorce from different - sex,
cisgender spouses.
It seems that, for many, it's easy to discredit postpartum depression because they'll never experience it, especially
cisgender men who will never become pregnant and, therefore, will never run the risk
of having postpartum depression.
Still, after a lifetime
of miseducation about what birth is really like, most people (straight,
cisgender men very much included) need accurate, non-sensationalized information about what to expect during labor so they don't freak out unnecessarily and do things that can make birth less comfortable or more dangerous.
As a
cisgender women, mother, Latina La Leche League Leader with a lot
of privilege, my equity journey is just starting.
The comments made by the predominantly white, middle - class,
cisgender feminists such as Harriet Harman, Caroline Flint, Stella Creasy and Fiona McTaggart revealed a genuine or wilful ignorance about the experiences
of sex workers.
Meanwhile, most
of us in the real world are just getting on with it, minus pitchforks, sanctimony, lectures about «
cisgendered supremacism» or references to «buggery».
Some
cisgender * people are cool but most would not be there in terms
of dating.
The participants and their
cisgender (non-transgender) siblings were recruited through support groups, conferences, and word
of mouth.
Transgender children also showed the same pattern
of results as
cisgender children on the explicit measures included in the study.
Finally, the researchers recruited
cisgender children from a database
of families interested in participating in developmental psychology research studies.
The lead role is played with impressive emotional and physical openness by
cisgender actor Victor Polster, an issue acknowledged by critics, but one that for most did not diminish the power
of the filmmaking.
A documentary about trans women in Puerto Rico, Mala Mala offers viewers both the glitz and the humdrum from a variety
of colorful yet human characters, from Ivana Fred, a politically - minded woman who spends her evenings passing out condoms to sex workers, to Sandy Rivera, a sex worker with a loving
cisgender boyfriend.
His classiest move was to include his popular «Jokes Seth Can't Tell» segment from his show, a bit where Meyers sets up a joke that tackles sexism, racism and more before having one
of his writers who's not a white,
cisgender man deliver the punchline.
The entertainment industry's habit
of casting
cisgender actors in transgender roles — some
of them, like Transparent's Jeffrey Tambor, giving performances that are exceptionally fine — has gone hand in glove with its near - monolithic focus on stories
of transition.
Most notably, not a single black or LGBT person was nominated in the four acting categories while a total
of 20 straight - identifying,
cisgender white people were recognized.
Director Roland Emmerich summed up this mentality in response to criticism over his period drama, Stonewall, in which he created a fictional white, male,
cisgender, «straight - acting» character to lead a true story about an act
of defiance by some
of the most marginalized people in the LGBT community.
We've already seen some backlash towards Hollywood's practice
of casting straight
cisgender actors in LGBT roles.
Much might be made
of Dhont's decision to cast a
cisgender male in the lead role (films with Eddie Redmayne and Matt Bomer playing trans have been met with some backlash) but this might be a unique case.
He went on to say that transgender actors shouldn't be considered incapable
of interpreting
cisgender roles, and dubbed his casting decision «an act
of freedom.»
Cisgender (a.k.a. «cis»)-- A cisgender person is someone whose gender identity (their internal sense of themselves as a man or a woman) matches the sex they wereassigned
Cisgender (a.k.a. «cis»)-- A
cisgender person is someone whose gender identity (their internal sense of themselves as a man or a woman) matches the sex they wereassigned
cisgender person is someone whose gender identity (their internal sense
of themselves as a man or a woman) matches the sex they wereassigned at birth.
I spoke with Hooper (Les Misérables, The King's Speech) about his aesthetic choices for the film and how he felt about the pushback he received from some members in the LGBTQ community for casting Redmayne, a
cisgender male actor, in the role
of Lili.
According to a 2015 survey [PDF] by the National Center for Transgender Equality, 77 percent
of transgender youth were mistreated at school (ranging from verbal harassment to prohibitions on dressing according to gender identity to physical or sexual assault); according to the Human Rights Campaign, transgender youth are twice as likely to experiment with drugs and alcohol [PDF] as straight,
cisgender peers.
Promoting tolerance, freedom, and equality for all people regardless
of race, sex, orientation, national origin, handicap, etc... except for white, straight,
cisgendered males.
(As a white,
cisgender, hetero man, I won't pretend to speak for any
of the groups that Topple promises to represent.)
Also, when stepping away from the basic
cisgendered heterosexual norm, too many authors put way too much emphasis on the sex rather than the rest
of the characters» lives.
Further, in terms
of gender representation in Trecartin's work, it must be stated that
cisgendered (nontransgendered) actors parodying the stereotype
of another gender (eg, men wearing pink clothes and blonde wigs, women wearing flannel shirts and fake beards) do little to further our understanding
of the fluidity
of gender.
Contrasting classic portraits
of those who identify as transgender,
cisgender, genderqueer, and gender nonconforming with the vintage processes
of 19th Century wet - plate collodion tintype and ambrotype, photographer Robyn Renee Hasty is attempting to fluidly connect the concept
of gender neutrality across platforms and through time.
By moving towards portraiture, Newsome engages with the idea
of agency, specifically in relation to interpretations
of feminism by transgender and
cisgender women
of color.
We have applied a metric that assumes a
cisgender binary — this is limiting, but also reflective
of the limited representation in our galleries: no trans * - identified artists appear in our survey because no trans * - identified artists had solo exhibitions in any
of these Canadian institutions since 2013.
That, ultimately, is what mediates the presence
of Native people, people
of color,
cisgender and trans women in the legal profession.