i really just need y’all to unpack the assumptions you’re making about yourself/others based on asab. the point of shifting to asab language is highlighting that it is a *past event* and the social construction of the roles. so when the same bioessentialist/gender essentialist/binarist baggage is attached to the usage of asab, that’s why people get upset and push back on it. *oftentimes* experience-based or body part-based language is more specific/appropriate.

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Also, at least imo, it downplays the struggle that a lot of people faced growing up Im a woman, but was raised as a man. If this happened to a cis woman people would rightfully be screaming about it, but trans women are often told they had “male privilege” or something. Literally using a woman’s trauma to attack her. Trans women aren’t boys growing up, we’re women being forced into something we’re not. And going “amab this” or “amab that” downplays it. I can’t speak for a transmasc perspective

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