#assigned gender at birth

[ifwebefriends]

Yeah,

Now might be a good time to go to Google Scholar or any database you can get your hands on and download any articles with the terms above that you can and make sure to save it to a USB or hard drive, somewhere offline where they can’t take it from us.

Btw, this is how conservatives keep getting to claim that trans people are a new thing no one has ever heard, because our history and existences have continually been erased or obscured systematically through out history.

The most famous example was 92 years when the Nazis raided the library of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, the medical practice where the term transsexual was first coined and the first gender affirming surgery was performed in in 1931.

What did the Nazis do after raiding the library on May 6th, 1933? You may be familiar with these images

It is happening again.

[afabtransfemserver]

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Hello reader! If you're interested, you probably are or think you might be transfeminine. The issue for you is that either you were assigned female at birth or were assigned a gender that makes you feel it would be odd for you to call yourself transfeminine.

You've probably felt imposing or unwelcome in transfeminine spaces, maybe you even feel isolated.

Well no longer! For the first time ever, we have a space to gather! The largest AFAB Transfem space ever created, our Discord server. Even if you're on the fence, take a peek and see if you resonate with us, you might just meet others like you for the first time! And you don't even have to be sure about it!

This is not an education server. For safety of our members, only the people described will be permitted to join. We are not here to convince you “why AFAB Transfems are valid”, we hear enough discourse about our existence. We deserve a space to exist within our genders and to relate to others like us free from outside influence. If you personally don't agree with the concept of AFAB transfeminine people, you can ignore this post in its entirety. As important as allies can be to trans communities, we specifically are controversial to the point that allowing outsiders can quickly become hazardous. Even those who state their support will not be allowed unless they consider themselves a potential member of the community. Please do not join to try to learn about us.

We hope to see you there! https://discord.gg/4AJCNQ6gzF

[genderqueerdykes]

tbh your (and other intersex bloggers') posts about how agab is simply an event and means nothing in the way of body parts has helped me a lot in self acceptance? idk if I can really say that because I'm a perisex trans boy, it's not really my relief or validation to have... but its helped me like. idk. hate how I was born less. I hated thinking of myself as AFAB until recently, I already believed it but your posts really just helped me properly internalize how little it means. it's helped me more appreciate the trans part of my transmasculinity. idk hopefully that isn't appropriative or offensive to say. I just wanted to tell u

i don't think that's offensive, i've met a few people who are in a similar line of thinking that really opened my eyes to how broad perisex experiences can be, too. i've met several trans guys who were assigned female at birth, but did not identify with it. they identified as cis men with male bodies, already as they were, no hormones or surgery required. that they simply already had male bodies. i've met trans women with the exact same identities. i dated a trans woman who saw her body as a female body, without needing any modifications.

like hear me out, but i think in order to totally free ourselves from the biological sex binary, we have to give perisex people wiggle room, too. obviously, a perisex person shouldn't identify as intersex, but i think you're allowed to say. no, the doctor was wrong actually, my body is (this). you're not denying the parts you're born with or the hormones your body produces, but you are challenging the notion of what a "Female" or "Male" body is and looks like- which is exactly what we need to see more of in order to progress forward with intersex and sex variant liberation.

we need to be encouraging people who are willing to deconstruct what "male" and "female" bodies are and look like. we need to understand that this benefits all trans and intersex people. we can and should care about liberating perisex people from this binary as well. it helps perisex people interact with and learn more about intersex identities as they learn more about their own. it's an exchange. it's a dialogue. i'm really glad you realized that about yourself, you deserve to feel comfortable in your body! take care of yourself

[bupsafr3ak]

AAAB

Assigned Angel At Birth

[oddtransfem]

So what's wrong with AFAB transfems anyway?

I might make a longer essay about this but for now, I wanted to jot down some thoughts.

I'm well aware of the origins of the term, to my knowledge it began in the intersex community by people who meant well and sought to describe an experience intersex people noticed they were having. Understandable but even then there was a fatal flaw.

My biggest gripe with the label is the first word in it. "AFAB". Supposedly, this is an identity label, words that describe someone's gender, modality or alignment. Why is it then that the assignment is part of the label?

There's a pretty clear reason why. There's an acknowledgement that transfeminine people assigned female at birth will have a different experience to other transfems. Fine and dandy right? Well still not really.

I discussed this a little in my essay 'Assigned Femininity', how identifying with an assignment is harmful not only to trans women but also trans identity. The very point of transitioning whether social or medical is to remake yourself, to define yourself outside of society's strict gendered assignment of female and male. To use one of those assignments as part of an identity, even if it's meant to describe an experience, is counterintuitive to adopting a transgender identity.

Trans women have been pointing this out, why don't these people use intersex transfem instead of AFAB transfem? Again, I get why, wanting a distinguisher for people like you is an understandable and very common thing for a community to push for. In simple terms it's just a bad one, it doesn't do what it sets out to do.

One of those reasons being that it's made people extrapolate assigned female TO female, a tendency humans have to simplify. They assume someone assigned female was born a certain way, has certain genitals, was raised as a girl, retained their female assignment throughout their lives, etc. It associates someone's identity with how they were assigned, the opposite of the point of being trans. It too splits a line down the middle, distinguishing "female" transfems from "male" transfems, do I have to explain what's wrong with that?

It's no wonder then that TERFs have adopted the label. It was inevitable, emphasizing a "female experience" was bound to alienate transfems who frequently have their own assignment used against them. TERFS said they were the real trans women, explicitly saying that trans women were not real women themselves. Ignoring the trans part, this likely begun the notion that AFAB transfems were cis women invading the transfeminine community to adopt aesthetics and culture while simultaneously speaking over transfems on their own subjects. The worst part was, that really was and still is happening. Intersex people find themselves distraught that a word they created for their people has been co-opted by bigots and face the repercussions for it. It never should've been used in the first place but regardless of TERF status or transmisogynistic peddling, a group of people were overwhelmingly labelled as disingenuous. To say this was out of left field would be ignorant to the level of transmisogyny stirring in these spaces though the minimal good that could've come out of the term all went down the drain.

That's another difficult topic, how AFAB transfem despite all its issues is the most popular term for these groups of people. It makes a horrible distinction but the only real one considering the more obscure labels (honeybee transfem, wïfmull, trollfem) don't have much of a community behind them. All that's left now is a clusterfuck of bad information. Misunderstandings of what it means to be transfeminine. Harassment. Blatant, internalized or otherwise relatively subtle transmisogyny. There's too much to say about it, how so much is wrong with people determining themselves to be transfeminine because of a supposed disconnection to womanhood, the desire for a penis or a masculine body structure. How there may very well be an experience that deserves recognition that isn't being explained with very much tact at all.

For a long time, this conversation has scared me away. I thought I was a bad person because I couldn't find a way characterize my experience with womanhood as anything other than trans. I interrogated myself based on my knowledge of transmisogyny, why do I think this? What makes me so different from a cis person? I couldn't stop feeling like I was doing a bad thing and trust me, I tried to stop. I've never used the AFAB transfem label, I knew its issues but the word too caused me a great deal of dysphoria that sent me down several mental health spirals as well as one severe dissociative episode where my entire identity as a human being nearly crumbled. I looked for anything else, ipsogender, adfeminine, demigender, sensfeminine, any little micro label but it did nothing for me. It just isolated me from any sense of community or culture. I truly do have an understanding of the people who fight for the label so hard, I know that there's a genuine experience of gender underneath all of the shit. In my opinion though, it's time to let the label go. There are better options out there. In my essay I described in more detail who I called assignment variant transgender women. I won't describe everything here, for that, go read my essay on WordPress.

Thank you for your time.

[edwardallenpoe]

Why do we call agab agab. It's sex assigned at birth. Not gender. It would be dif if it was Amab and Awab for assigned man and woman at birth or abab and agab for boy and girl, because those are genders, but this is assigned sex at birth. So why isn't it asab. Hm.

Maybe it's an example of the trans community still having this weird idea that sex = gender that they haven't unpacked fully outside of validating nonbinary perisex people. Or it could just be an honest overlook. Either way.

[helpless--romantics]

I was at my friend's house last night watching a movie, and she started telling me about how she's tackling gender with her toddler. He has absolutely no concept of gender, but they still want to make sure he uses the correct pronouns for people.

She asked him "Octavian, are you a boy or a girl?" and he said "nnnno! I'm Octavian!"

Great, we love to see it

Then she asked him "Octavian, is momma a boy or a girl?" and he said "nnnno! I'm fouwrrr"

And she asked a couple more times, but the answer was always no

Which is to say, my friend is the first person ever to be assigned nonbinary at 4-year-old xD

[ontheoutside-lookingin]

Can someone explain to me why I was born with

1.) a pathological fear of all things regarding reproduction and human offspring AND ALSO

2.) a ridiculously detrimental reproductive organ to bleed from every single month of my adult life to remind me what a spiritual and biological fucking failure I am for not centering my life around reproduction and human offspring

bc I’m just wondering why I needed to be born with BOTH of these traits ?

[augmentedpolls]

are you intersex? What was your sex assigned at birth?

Yes, assigned male at birth

Yes, assigned female at birth

Yes, assigned intersex/other at birth

No, assigned male at birth

No, assigned female at birth

Something else

Results

Thanks anon for submitting! If you’d like your own question answered, feel free to submit polls via the ask box

[vanilla-voyeur]

The bestest most wonderful part of AMAB/AFAB is that it's inescapable. You can change the gender on your birth certificate, but you can't change your AGAB. You can get all sorts of surgeries and hormones and whatever to permanently alter your biology, but you can't change your AGAB. You can come out as trans at age 5 and be socialized your entire life as your real gender, but you can't change your AGAB. Beautiful concept. Very progressive. Yes I am a good ally.

[void-galaxy-shenanigans]

I am non binary. It doesn’t matter what “sex” I was Accused At Birth, and no one is entitled to that information.

[oediex]

when you are assigned a gender at birth, that is a political act

[genderqueerdykes]

Not intersex, but I wanted to share that my parents were convinced that I was a boy at the time I was born! I almost got marked M on my birth certificate, lmao. My genitals weren't clear to them for them at the time for whatever reason, but after I was cleaned up they figured I was female afterall.

Assigning gender at birth doesn't work, even for some perisex people.

that is so wild, so it really just does affect everyone. i've been trying to say this forever, so thank you for this insight, i really appreciate it. it just doesn't work.

[cypric-rat-hyperfixation]

2y/o art I never posted lmao

✨Reblogs✨ > likes > murder > reposting w/out credit

I do not consent to having my work fed to machine learning programs!

[oddtransfem]

hellooo

i was afab, and i am genderfluid (between masc, fem, neutral, and agender). my femininity is definitely trans, especially due to having been fairly just transmasc for a while, and i resonate a lot with transfemininity. i look up to transfems and their passing tips will be useful for me soon. i am taking testosterone and will likely begin to experience transmisogyny directed towards me as masc effects continue to occur, but me being transfem (when i am) is not based around that at all.

just saying this because i've seen you talk about oppression and transmisogyny and rejecting "femaleness" being why some who were afab identify as transfem, and thought you might want to know of my experience being different from that.

My analysis is not about people who were AFAB and identify as transfeminine. My essays are about people who were assigned femaleness at some point in their lives (ie. almost every trans person including people assigned male or female at birth) and assert a gender identity (womanhood) that transgresses that assignment and is therefore societally unacceptable. Transfeminized people.

So it's less that those people "identify as transfem" and more like they inhabit the social position of being a transfeminine/trans woman/transfeminized person and are forced into that category whether they want to be or not.

I don't know how you define your femininity so I can't comment on that. I feel a lot of people misunderstand what it is I'm trying to say considering this isn't the first ask I've gotten where they've assumed I'm referring exclusively to people who were AFAB and identify as transfeminine. I know why that is, I know how this blog comes off but this is not an AFAB transfem blog.