gender-normative

[ jen-der-nawr-muh-tiv ]

adjective

1. cisgender.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gender-normative¹

First recorded in 1980–85

Example Sentences

And while in 2021 Waddingham said she’d always envisioned Rebecca wanting children as part of her backstory, the combination of motherhood coming up again via a psychic and the discourse about Rebecca ending up with Ted in Kansas seemed to paint her into a very gender-normative box.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s perhaps too gender-normative to conclude that men simply care less and leave it at that.

From Slate

There may be some gender-normative stuff showing up here, but there are plenty of mothers and other caregivers who share your issues.

From Slate

In case you are unfamiliar with this extremely gender-normative phenomenon, it is a ritual in which a couple simultaneously finds out and reveals the sex of their unborn child in “creative” ways.

From The Guardian

Yeah, it’s purely decorative and gender-normative as heck and involves body modification of a minor.

From Slate