LGBTQIA+ on Yik Yak | Hot take: 90% of times someone says “AFAB” or “AMAB” the implications of it are more transphobic than just ignoring our existence. Someone can be assigned one gender at birth and grow up perceived as another, AGAB isn’t a proxy for cisnornative gender

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LGBTQIA+ 10w

Hot take: 90% of times someone says “AFAB” or “AMAB” the implications of it are more transphobic than just ignoring our existence. Someone can be assigned one gender at birth and grow up perceived as another, AGAB isn’t a proxy for cisnornative gender

Anonymous 10w

I know trans people who grew up out as trans from a young age, many intersex people have had their assigned sex and gender along with it change several times growing up or body development not line up with what they’re assigned. If we’re going to use inclusive language we can’t just swap out terms, you need to use them in a way thats actually inclusive

Anonymous 10w

it’s not “assigned gender at birth” it’s “assigned sex at birth” which is completely different.

Anonymous 10w

I was born ACAB

Anonymous

#1 10w

Both are used and the same problem applies to both

Anonymous

OP 10w

The intersex community also finds value in being able to describe how doctors and family forced them into a specific sex at birth. Not everyone with the same specific condition gets assigned to the same sex, and that assignment has consequences. Obviously people now use ASAB way outside of that context (afaik that’s why people started replacing sex with gender in the label - non-intersex trans people started wanting to use the labels, which quickly turned into the problems you're talking abt)

Anonymous

#4 9w

The usage you’re talking about would fall into the 10% of the time that it is appropriate. I am not opposed to the term, I think it is an important term, I am opposed to the majority of the instances of it being deployed