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  • iridaniotter [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    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.

    geordi-no AMAB woman - “assigned male at birth woman”

    geordi-yes 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. power-genius