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Noun

1. 1
   The assumption that all human beings are either male or female in both sex and gender, and that sexual and romantic attraction and activity only occurs, or is only normal, between people of different sexes. countable, uncountable

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cisnormativity

Example

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"What's the point of fighting heteronormativity with more heteronormativity?"

Etymology

From hetero- + normativity.

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