#i might turn reblogs off because i honestly dont want this to break containment but i just had thoughts

[gaytheropods]

The thing about the "afab trans woman" and "amab trans men" discourse is that if we use amab/afab in the actual literal definition of the words, as in "doctor looked at your crotch 10 seconds after you were born and said you're a boy/girl" (compared to "amab=penis XX and afab=vagina XY"), is that there are plenty of intersex people that just won't fit into the perisex boxes that assume that afab trans person is transitioning away from girl and amab trans person is transitioning away from boy.

I'm not an intersex person or specialist and I don't want to make up hypothetical intersex people to prove the point, but the range of ways to transition and the range of ways that bodies will naturally produce/utilize hormones and body structures is going to break these boxes and it's stupid to go around saying that all people who identify this way are "stealing" and "words used to MEAN things"