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A lot of the ambivalent parent discourse tends to coagulate around white cis-het mothers of a certain milieu.—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026 Not all het people are cis, as there are straight trans people.—Quispe López, Them, 18 Mar. 2025 And how often in a cis-het relationship is the person in charge of the money … the man?—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 June 2021