Meaning

2 senses
  1. A social barrier to consideration (by cisgender women) of transgender women as viable sexual partners.

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cotton, ceiling.

Origin

Coined by Canadian activist Drew Deveaux. Modelled on glass ceiling. Underwear is typicall

Coined by Canadian activist Drew Deveaux. Modelled on glass ceiling. Underwear is typically made from cotton.

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Forms

plural: cotton ceilings
Singularcotton ceiling
Pluralcotton ceilings

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Word family

1 related words

See also

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