Meaning of cislate | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“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.”

“I thought aloud about 'a word for kinda transm kinda not' before settling on transish? and Otto went through terms like demitrans and cisdissident before settling on cisn't for this study: 'I am not exactly trans, but cis isn't it. Cisn't it? [laughs]' (Otto). […] Despite this discomfort, all participants engaged in cislating themselves. They all 'let people call me trans (J) because 'sometimes it's just easier' (Bix) or 'better than cis (Otto). […] cislated frames that focus on trans / cis and binary / nonbinary dichotomies and on man / woman / nonbinary trinaries […]”

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