Cisfemininity

However, the act of critiquing cisnormativity inevitably presents the critic with a limited set of alternatives: one could argue that transmasculinity is as normal and regular as cismasculinity, cisfemininity, or transfemininity; […]

Shikyūkei and chitsukei epitomise these traits of new spiritual culture by locating the part of the body most intimately associated with cisfemininity, a woman's sexual and reproductive organs, as the cause and remedy for the events of her life.

But we do need to talk about ourselves: practicing "black trans-cis-terhood"— to use black transfeminist theorist Dora Santana's felicitous phrase—means understanding black queer cisfemininity on its own terms.