cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/28783084

How trying to define ourselves or others define us by assigned sex at birth doesn’t serve us and is generally oppressive and incorrect, both scientifically and socially.

  • minoscopede@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    2日前

    tl;dw: AMAB and AFAB can be useful in certain contexts, but it’s:

    1. Brought up too often in contexts it doesn’t matter. ASAB should be offered up consensually by the person, never volunteered on their behalf.

    2. Often used a shorthand for other things that would be better to talk about directly. For example, a GP needs to know if they have a prostate, a support group wants people that experienced misogyny as a child, a partner asking if they bottom, etc.

    • dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      6·
      19時間前

      have always felt it’s weird the way the focus is more on the assigned sex than on the self-identified gender … e.g. if someone is trans and you call them transfem it also communicates they were assigned male at birth (this is required such that being an enby or woman makes them trans).

      Focusing on assigned sex can “undo” someone’s gender in a way that calling them a transfem doesn’t, for example.