afab and amab are commonly used abbreviations in the trans community. They stand for Assigned Female at Birth and Assigned Male at Birth.
Cis men don’t describe themselves as “amab” they just describe themselves as men.
Absolutely "assigned” is used to describe a potentially imperfect decision by the nurse to label a baby male or female, based on the limited information they have at the time.
There’s a lot more to gender than just what the nurse sees when you pop out, even for cis people, but what gets written down doesn’t take anything else into account.
Trans people have typically thought this stuff through a lot and are using words carefully, whereas you seem resistant both to the meaning of the verb “assigned” and the context “at birth”.
The word “assigned” is used exactly to describe a decision by a second party (the nurse) based on the limited information they have at the time.
Midwives relatively frequently incorrectly assign intersex people at birth.
Your actual sex isn’t assigned by anybody, and certainly isn’t decided at birth, but rather at conception.
Timeline:
no
i’m using it to mean “gotten without having chosen it”
the sex they have gotten, without having chosen it, from the dna lottery
And you believe this happens at birth?! Nonsense!
“at birth” is an oversimplification, not meant to be accurate
its probably used so commonly because the not-yet-born human is usually not really considered
afab and amab are commonly used abbreviations in the trans community. They stand for Assigned Female at Birth and Assigned Male at Birth.
Cis men don’t describe themselves as “amab” they just describe themselves as men.
Absolutely "assigned” is used to describe a potentially imperfect decision by the nurse to label a baby male or female, based on the limited information they have at the time.
There’s a lot more to gender than just what the nurse sees when you pop out, even for cis people, but what gets written down doesn’t take anything else into account.
Trans people have typically thought this stuff through a lot and are using words carefully, whereas you seem resistant both to the meaning of the verb “assigned” and the context “at birth”.