Yaoiboypussy

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Yaoiboypussy
@Yaoiboypussy

I find it so weird when people use asab terms like nouns. ‘Amabs’ and ‘afabs’ like Jesus Christ y’all are so weird.


milleniumbug
@milleniumbug

the linguistic tendency to shorten the terms is really working against the trans community, "was coercively assigned male at birth" -> "was assigned male at birth" -> "was amab" -> "is amab" -> "an amab", and at this point people treat this the same as "biological male".


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in reply to @milleniumbug's post:

TMA/TME don't really make sense outside of discussing transmisogyny, and I don't really find it productive to discuss who qualifies and who does not under "TMA" - trans women definitely do (whether they're perisex or intersex), and beyond that it's generally anyone's guess. This impreciseness is not supposed to matter, I think, as this is a matter less in terms of interpersonal conflicts, and more about population trends and systemic discrimination. In fact it seems to me like these acronyms are recursive on purpose ("who are TMA people? those who are subject to transmisogyny. who is subject to transmisogyny? the TMA people") to avoid needing to delve who exactly is and who isn't, but it doesn't stop the discourse anyway.

Now, this doesn't mean these terms are not misused - using these terms in context outside of transmisogyny is misuse. TME specifically doesn't imply "being trans" either, so "cis and tme" I saw a few times is already a misuse. Putting it in a profile bio also seems off to me - it's not an identity label either.