#im not saying that differentiating between afab/amab is always bad. like obviously there will always be uses for those terms | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

fabulouslygaybean · 10 months

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i reeeaaaally hate how the trans community has circled back to perpetuating yet another gender binary with afab/amab. it's like we've done a 180 and all of a sudden trans people are basing their opinions of other trans people on their fucking genitals, just like transphobic cis folk do but in a different, more "progressive" flavor

#it's so weird #like. idk. this is a more recent development i feel #in the past i was used to afab/amab only really being used when it was relevant to the convo #eg. educational posts or talking about your body to other trans people where knowing what anatomy someone's working with would be useful #but people are treating it as “woman-lite” and “man-lite”#it just comes off as “your biology defines who you are and how we should treat you and there's nothing you can do about it”#which. y'know. sounds an awful lot like a fuckin conservative talking point #im not saying that differentiating between afab/amab is always bad. like obviously there will always be uses for those terms #but the way they've been used lately really rubs me the wrong way as someone who's been active in trans spaces for a while now

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