Example Sentences

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Every airport guest — regardless of whether they identified as cis-male, cis-female or anything else — could just pop into the large common room, do their business, wash their hands and be on their way.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2023

Similarly, Henry's own story is one of gender and identity as he struggles to navigate being a gay, cis-male prince.

From Salon • Aug. 19, 2023

“Modern masculinity is so confining,” Jerid Bartow, Drucker’s cis-male boyfriend, told me one evening.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2016

I believe trans-males should be afforded all the benefits that come with being cis-male; but the converse should then also be true: they should also accept the limitations that come with being cis-male.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2014