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'''Assigned Gender At Birth''' ('''AGAB''') or '''Designated Gender At Birth''' ('''DGAB''') (also called '''Assigned Gender''' or '''Assigned Sex''') is the gender one is assigned at birth based on medical factors, including your hormones, chromosomes, and genitals. It is the sex that is put on one birth certificate and typically corresponds to the gender one was raised as and/or is assumed to be in childhood. The term is a way to refer to the sex that was put on one's birth certificate, without making assumptions about their current sex, body or gender. Common acronyms are:
* AFAB: Assigned Female At Birth. Also seen as DFAB (Designated Female At Birth) or FAAB (Female Assigned At Birth).
* AMAB: Assigned Male At Birth. Also seen as DMAB (Designated Male At Birth) or MAAB (Male Assigned At Birth).
* [https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/AXAB AXAB]: Assigned X At Birth, typically used for intersex individuals. Also seen as UAAB (Un-Assigned At Birth).
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 is some way biological and that their identities are less real than those of [[cisgender]] people.
== Intersex Assigned Genders ==
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;
* CAFAB
* CAMAB
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.
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