dreamiin-chuchu:

beyond-mogai-pride-flags:

DFAB: Designated Female At Birth.

The meanings are the same of the DMAB instead this one represent things differently since it’s about DFAB gender modalities and sex traits.

Another reminder: DFAB doesn’t always equate ©AFAB, one can be CAMAB (Coercively Assigned Male At Birth) and DFAB simultaneously.

-Ap

OP, what’s the difference between DFAB and AFAB? /gq

In terms of identity and denoting, it’s just a personal thing. In some places of the Earth, the word assigned (A) isn’t used that much. While designation (D) connotes more corporeally (medical), assignment connotes more juridically (philosophical). Then one is biopolitical and the other sociopolitical.

This is important to note as some intersex people were assigned one thing while biologically pertaining to a corner/side of the bimodal sex spectrum. At the same time, altersex people can struggle with self-determination and terminology. A post-HRT trans* folk can reject the fact that they are MtF/AMAB or FtM/AFAB, for example. Think also about eunuchs and gender socialization.