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LGBTQIA+ 7w
I feel like people use afab and amab to mean girl and boy even when talking about nonbinary people.
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Anonymous 7w

99% of the time, it’s just their “workaround” to misgender and ignore who someone actually is.

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Anonymous 7w

The amount of times I’ve talked about my experience as a trans woman and someone goes “Yeah but all AMABs do xyz…” …

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Anonymous 7w

ugh yeah, really sick of it

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Anonymous 7w

They do and it’s really frustrating

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Anonymous 6w

Amab enby is used like a slur i stg

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Anonymous 7w

Isn’t that the point?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7w

Yuppppp

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7w

“Well you were socialised as a man!” Actually, no. I was a mother first to my own mom and then to my friends. Even when I was cis-passing, I was always called mom, I was at the sleepovers, I was always amongst the gals. I have had a total of five guy friends in my life. I don’t understand guys and how they think— I was never around them to learn. 😒

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 7w

Dividing NON BINARY people INTO A BINARY is stupid

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 7w

How would that be the point?

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 6w

AGAB terms come from intersex people using the gender their doctor marked them as to discuss the ways in which the medical institution fucked us up to "look like a real girl/boy." It got adopted by perisex trans ppl who found a similar use from it to talk abt how they were forced to behave as a specific gender. Then essentialits got to it & now its often used to talk about "male socialization" and how people are "basically girls/boys."

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