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'''Assigned Gender At Birth''' ('''AGAB''') or '''Designated Gender At Birth''' ('''DGAB'''
* [[AFAB]]: Assigned Female At Birth. Also seen as DFAB (Designated Female At Birth), OFAB (Observed Female At Birth) or FAAB (Female Assigned At Birth).
* [[AMAB]]: Assigned Male At Birth. Also seen as DMAB (Designated Male At Birth), OMAB (Observed Male At Birth) or MAAB (Male Assigned At Birth).
* [[AXAB]]: Assigned X At Birth. Also seen as [[AIAB]]: Assigned Indeterminate At Birth. Typically used for intersex individuals.
* [[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 [[gender identity|identities]] are less real than those of [[cisgender]]
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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==
CASAB terminology was allegedly coined by trans women and a cis
The original abbreviation of AFAB and AMAB was supposedly used to ascribe intersex
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▲CASAB terminology was allegedly coined by trans women and a cis person in 2008,<ref>https://mahdialynn.tumblr.com/post/135173576953/cafabcamab</ref> but it's in use is recorded since at least 2002.<ref name=":0" /><ref>https://kyberia.sk/id/3069259</ref>
* [[ANC]]
▲The original abbreviation of AFAB and AMAB was supposedly used to ascribe intersex people.<ref>https://anunnakiray.com/2021/02/07/where-did-assigned-male-female-at-birth-come-from/</ref> Usually, [[TERF|TERFs]] bring this unverifiable discourse as a way to gatekeep trans people from using these terms.
== References ==
▲[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_assignment Sex assignment] in general is used to describe any person, or [[Gender Modality|gender modality]]
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