AFAB and AMAB is too often used as an adjective, when it should be used as a verb phrase (assigned x at birth). In other words, it belongs after the noun, not before.
AMAB woman - “assigned male at birth woman”
woman AMAB - “woman [that was] assigned male at birth”
By re-iterating that these acronyms are verb phrases and thus actions, we can re-emphasize the social construction of AMAB/AFAB and combat the tendency to use these acronyms as a way to simply misgender trans people.
AFAB and AMAB is too often used as an adjective, when it should be used as a verb phrase (assigned x at birth). In other words, it belongs after the noun, not before.
By re-iterating that these acronyms are verb phrases and thus actions, we can re-emphasize the social construction of AMAB/AFAB and combat the tendency to use these acronyms as a way to simply misgender trans people.
I love to see theory in the trans mega
thanks i theorized this myself i think
problem is that “woman AMAB” can be read as “adjective noun” instead of “noun verb”
I suppose, but its use as an attributive isn’t that common at least from personal experience.