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A cisgender (sometimes shortened to cis; sometimes cissexual) person has a gender identity that matches their sex assigned at birth. A person whose sex was assigned male at birth and identifies as a boy or a man, or someone whose sex was assigned female at birth and identifies as a girl or a woman, is considered cisgender. This is the case for the majority of human beings.

Cisgender people may or may not conform to gender norms and stereotypes associated with their gender identity. Cisgender men and women may not necessarily exhibit all stereotypical masculine or feminine traits, respectively. Cisgender people's identity development is often viewed as normative, in contrast to transgender people's. According to some academic literature, cisgender people are afforded cisgender privilege, defined as "a set of unearned advantages".

Gender identity is distinct from sexual orientation, and cisgender people may be of any sexual orientation. The opposite of cisgender is transgender, which describes people whose gender identity does not match their assigned sex.

Terminology
The word cisgender is the antonym of transgender (which refers to someone whose gender identity or gender expression does not correspond with the sex they were assigned at birth). The prefix cis- is Latin and means 'on this side of'. The term cisgender was coined in 1994 and entered into dictionaries starting in 2015 as a result of changes in social discourse about gender.

Gender expression
Cisgender people are diverse in their preferred gender expressions. They can be gender-conforming or gender-nonconforming.

Prevalence
The majority of people are cisgender.

Privilege
Cisgender people are afforded cisgender privilege, a set of unearned advantages and rights such as easier access to gender-specific healthcare, unchallenged use of their preferred gendered pronouns and names, lower exposure to gender-based violence, access to gender-segregated spaces and teams, and access to government-issued identification that correctly records their gender.

Normativity
Cisgender people's identity development is often viewed as normative, in contrast to transgender people's. In many cultures, because cisgender people are more numerous, gender categorization is cisnormative: people are expected to be cisgender, with a self-identification that is binary (male or female) and conveys information about their anatomy. Extreme cisnormativity leads to cisgenderism, which denies or denigrates noncisgender experiences.