Trans Talk on Yik Yak | literally. i’m always talking with trans ppl i know to try and get them to move past using/identifying with agab language. it’s not necessary and often it reinforces harmful assumptions. pls practice not using agab to describing yourself+others.

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literally. i’m always talking with trans ppl i know to try and get them to move past using/identifying with agab language. it’s not necessary and often it reinforces harmful assumptions. pls practice not using agab to describing yourself+others.

Trans Talk 4d

this + agab is a sociological category, not a biological one. asking about someone’s body is more helpful and much more accurate than making cisnormative and perinormative assumptions about bodies, which harm trans and intersex people.

92 upvotes, 3 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in Trans Talk. "this + agab is a sociological category, not a biological one. asking about someone’s body is more helpful and much more accurate than making cisnormative and perinormative assumptions about bodies, which harm trans and intersex people."

Anonymous 4d

also like. i saw a post a while ago that was like “some of y’all are going to be real mad at me if I say we already have a word for identifying with your agab” and that really reframed a lot of things for me lol. anyway, a lot of trans ppl says that agab is just “shorthand” for them and they don’t “actually” identify with it, but volunteering that info is choosing to identify that information and i think it’s important to unpack what you are using it as “shorthand” for—

Anonymous

OP 4d

bc like i said, that’s often based in harmful assumptions (like OP said, often ones that harm trans and intersex people). ex. if ur using AGAB as a shorthand for (current) genitalia, that’s an incorrect usage that harms and erases trans people. ex. if ur using AGAB to mean, “had x typically gendered experience” then again there are ways that’s harmful and often alienating to both trans and cis people. instead practice saying “as someone who had x experience” instead of tying it to AGAB.

Anonymous

OP 4d

also i think the point abt the relevance to the medical field is helpful. many times ppl substitute AGAB for gender and think that automatically makes their language 100% inclusive. for ex, when talking abt ppl who need gynecological care there’s often been a shift in progressive spaces from (implied cis) “women” to “people AFAB” but not everyone who was AFAB needs care, and some who were AMAB do. these discussions need more complexity and sensitivity, and often AGAB language limits that ime.

Anonymous

OP 4d

rt. as an autistic person any time someone starts talking about the “ASAB experience” i’m just confused lol.