assigned female at birth

Forbidden Word (phrase): assigned female at birth

assign v. 1 A locker was assigned to each student: allot, allocate, consign, set apart, distribute, apportion, mete out; dispense, grant, give. 2 The reporter was assigned to cover international news: designate, name, appoint, commission, delegate, choose; charge, entrust, invest. 3  Let’s assign a day for the next meeting:  name, fix, set, appoint, specify, designate, stipulate, prescribe, determine.
Ant. 2 dismiss, discharge, divest, relieve  keep open, hold in abeyance.

from – Family Word Finder: Reader’s Digest. The Reader’s Digest Association, 1975.

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female adj 1 She is their oldest female child: girl, woman; offspring-bearing, child-bearing. Sewing is considered a female occupation: feminine, womanly, ladylike, womanlike.
— n 3 Females constitute a slight majority of the population: woman, girl. This litter produced 2 males and 7 females:  female animal, offspring-bearing animal; (variously) mare, dam, sow, heifer, cow, bitch, tabby, hen.
Ant. 1 male. male, masculine, manly, virile.  male, man, boy. 4 male.

from – Family Word Finder: Reader’s Digest. The Reader’s Digest Association, 1975.

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at prep. 1 used as a function word to indicate presence or occurrence in, on, or near <staying ~ a hotel> <~ a party> sick ~ heart> 2 used as a function word to indicate the goal of an indicated applied action or motion <aim ~ the target> laugh ~ him> <the creditors are ~ him again> 3 used as a function word to indicate which one is occupied or employed <~ work> <~ the controls> <an expert ~ chess> 4 used as a function word to indicate an active or passive state or condition <a criminal ~ liberty> <~ rest> used as a function word to indicate the means, cause, or manner <sold ~ auction> <laughed ~ his joke> <act ~ your own discretion> a used as a function word to indicate the rate, degree, or position in a scale or series <the temperature ~ 90> <~ first> b used as a function word to indicate age or position in time <will retire ~ 65> <awoke ~ midnight>

from – Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary. Springfield, Mass., G. & C. Merriam Co, 1967.

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birth n 1 The child’s birth occurred at 2 a.m. The mother had a difficult birth:  being born; children, bearing, delivery, parturition. 2 The imposter claimed to be of royal birth:  descent, ancestry, family, parentage, extraction, lineage, derivation, breeding, genealogy, blood, stock, strain, origin, beginnings, background. 3 The birth of jazz was in New Orleans:  start, beginning, commencement, origin, source, genesis, emergence.
Ant. 1 death, miscarriage, abortion. 3 conclusion, finale, end, finish, death.

from – Family Word Finder: Reader’s Digest. The Reader’s Digest Association, 1975.

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assigned female at birth (AFAB) n – refers to someone whose sex was assigned as female when born, typically based on their external genitalia. While many transgender and non-binary people are comfortable identifying as AFAB, some prefer not to use this term to describe their experience or the experiences of others.

from – Human Rights Campaign

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Example Sentences: assigned female at birth (AFAB)

Ariel’s refusal to wear a corset despite it being a social faux pas to be seen without one at the time is very similar to autistic women and AFAB’s discomfort with wearing bras.
From Salon

Innocent is one of many cisgender women who participate in drag, sometimes referred to as “AFAB” or “Assigned Female At Birth Queens.”
From Seattle Times

Ingrained misogyny and medical paternalism make it notoriously difficult for people to get assigned female at birth, or AFAB, sterilization in the United States.
From Slate

As Mr. Grrrl put it, “Right now, if you don’t have an ‘AFAB performer,’” — meaning a cisgender woman, trans man or nonbinary person dressed as a drag queen — “or a drag king in your lineup, you’re doing it wrong.”
From New York Times

from – dictionary.com


March 25, 2025
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5 thoughts on “assigned female at birth

  1. I hasten to add that when the thug-in-chief issued yet another erroneous disorder, he essentially stated that everyone is now female. After all, fetuses first develop as female in the womb. Of course, if said thug-in-chief was intelligent and not so anti-science, he would have realized this, but I digress.

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