Let's talk about AMAB & AFAB ie assigned male at birth & assigned female at birth. Where do these expressions come from? Why not just say male or female? What does the assigned part mean? What new nuance does the creation of these acronyms add? What new aspect does it address? To reveal my thesis bluntly before the deep dive, AMAB & AFAB are useless. They only makes sense to TRAs. Are they used to allow one to say male or female without being so blunt as the words male/female are now "potential bearers of immense violence"? A euphemism of sort? Maybe.

That's the ultimate irony. Trans people want to "exist" so bad they are willing to cynically subvert many aspects of our society: division by sex class, information gatekeeping, a dystopian & destructive view of body autonomy, & they want to do it at everyone's expense.

https://twitter.com/cabaretagainst/status/1657089886204092433

Perhaps if they were less loud and obnoxious, they would thrive just like the small proportion of very discreet transsexuals that have existed since forever. If we notice you less, you shall exist more freely. They don't seem to grasp this.

One thing I would love all pro trans activists to hear: your stupidity, your scientific illiteracy, and your sense of entitlement are sadly not protected characteristics. Wear whatever the fuck you want, just don't deny your sexed body and stay out of single sex spaces. Enough! Stop using the same tired bad faith arguments that aren't smarter now than the first time they were uttered. No-one cares who you think you are in your head. No-one cares you altered your driver's license or birth certificate. No-one takes your pronouns requests seriously.

Are transwomen women? Of course not! But let's discuss this.

Why are we even in this mess? What happened that the definition had been stable as "adult human female" since the dawn of time across all cultures but suddenly something had shifted, prompting inevitable change? A pernicious ideology emerged inspired by the tenets of post modernism according to which words create reality rather than describe it. TRAs believe that declaring someone or themselves a woman is a performative act that actually makes it happen.

The word "transphobia" doesn't mean the same thing to TRAs vs GCs. The original definition of "irrational fear & disgust" has been hijacked by TRAs the same way they hijacked the meaning of the word "woman". How many of us roll our eyes when accused of transphobia? It seems en vogue these days to talk about "my truth". What point does the word "truth" even have when everyone has one? Irony aside, here is how I understand the word "transphobic". It says more about the person calling the other transphobic than the alleged transphobe.