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Originally Posted by seraphic
Please, please don't say that someone is "biologically female" or was "born male" or "female sex but nonbinary gender" unless they describe themselves that way. This isn't a really obvious thing, but that kind of language is used a lot to undermine trans peoples' genders and imply that you're not *really* your gender.
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YES! This is a really big thing. Afab (Assigned Female At Birth) and Amab (Assigned Male at birth) are how they will usually refer to their assigned sex.
Also do not forget Aiab (Assigned Intersex At Birth) and intersex people in general. They are very much out there in the world and working. They suffer the least amount of visibility in the trans community, seeing as we usually think of people as amab or afab.
On top of that, many trans people have begun apposing the strict sex dichotomy (obviously, with the existence of intersex people). Seeing as every individual human may or may not fit within strict sex definitions. So we say 'assigned' or 'decided' at birth. Because you know, the person who the doctors assigned a sex to had no ability to decide on their own at the time.