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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.

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:

CASAB terminology was allegedly coined by trans women and a cis person in 2008,<ref>https://mahdialynn.tumblr.com/post/135173576953/cafabcamab</ref> but its use is recorded since at least 2002.<ref>https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.transfaithonline.org/fileadmin/TFteaching/Bazant_TransRespect101.pdf</ref>

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.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_assignment Sex assignment] in general is used to describe any person, regardless of their [[sex]] or [[Gender Modality|gender modality]].