Sometimes I feel a little weird about non-intersex people using CAMAB and CAFAB to describe themselves. Like, yes everyone’s socialization is coercive, and I’m sure working out gender shit is hard for you.
But they actually cut off part of my genitals.
without my consent.
when I was a fucking infant.
So should I identify as violently assigned female at birth?
yes! I have been thinking about this same thing!
I liked MAAB and FAAB. I think the ‘assigned’ part indicates the lack of choice that we have in the matter.
I was assigned female at birth, the coercion didn’t come until much later when that assignment dictated my socially prescribed limitations as a girl. and in my life that coercion didn’t involve the mutilation of my genitals.
let’s not appropriate language from other people who are oppressed by the same fucked up system.
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martaunderthesea said:
yes, violently. i think you should claim that term. not to let non-intersex folks “have” coercive, but to try to express the magnitude of the harm acted out against you. violent.
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morestitches reblogged this from acekwright and added:
have been thinking...this same thing! I liked MAAB...FAAB. I...
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anurgeforinnerpeace said:
What about “surgically assigned female at birth”? The presence of both “surgically” and “at birth” implies the coercition and the physical violence.
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