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'''Assigned Gender At Birth''' ('''AGAB''') or '''Designated Gender At Birth''' ('''DGAB'''
* [[AFAB]]: Assigned Female At Birth. Also seen as
* [[AMAB]]: Assigned Male At Birth. Also seen as
* [[AXAB]]: Assigned X At Birth
* [[UAB]] or UAAB: Un-Assigned At Birth. Typically a choice by parents who are raising their children without a prescribed gender.
Sometimes, assigned sex may be referred to as ''genetic'' or ''biological'' gender. However, many members of the [[transgender]] community take offense to these and other similar terms, because it seems to imply that gender in general is biological and that their identities are less real than those of [[cisgender]] people.▼
▲Sometimes, assigned sex may be referred to as
Many intersex people have genital surgery at infancy, soon after birth, to "correct" their abnormal genitals and other organs of the reproductive system so they appear more [[Dyadic|perisex]]. This has led to intersex people coining their own terms for assigned genders:▼
▲Many intersex
* CAFAB: Coercively Assigned Female At Birth. Also seen as FAFAB (Forcibly Assigned Female At Birth) or IAFAB (Intersex Assigned Female At Birth).
* CAMAB: Coercively Assigned Male At Birth. Also seen as FAMAB (Forcibly Assigned Male At Birth) or IAMAB (Intersex Assigned Male At Birth).
These are exclusive terms referring to intersex individuals only, though the case could be argued for special cases such as boys who had botched circumcisions who had their genitals reconstructed and reassigned female after birth.
==History==
[[Category:Terminology]]▼
CASAB terminology was allegedly coined by trans women and a cis individual in 2008,<ref>{{Archive|URL=2022.02.12-082739/https://mahdialynn.tumblr.com/post/135173576953/cafabcamab}}</ref> but its use is recorded since at least 2002.
The original abbreviation of AFAB and AMAB was supposedly used to ascribe intersex individuals.<ref>{{Archive|URL=2022.02.12-082850/https://anunnakiray.com/2021/02/07/where-did-assigned-male-female-at-birth-come-from/}}</ref> Usually, [[TERF]]s bring this unverifiable discourse as a way to gatekeep trans individuals from using these terms.
[[w:Sex assignment|Sex assignment]] in general is used to describe any individual, regardless of their sex or [[gender modality]].
== See also ==
* [[ANC]]
== References ==
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