Forbidden Word (phrase): assigned male 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 3  keep open, hold in abeyance.

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

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male adj 1 On the average, male babies weigh more at birth than female ones: masculine, of the sex that fathers young; manly, manlike.
— n 2 Males are generally taller than females: a male person or animal; man, youth, boy; (variously) stallion, tomcat, billy goat, bull, rooster, ram
Ant. 1, 2 female, woman. 2 feminine.

Word Origin: Male comes from Latin masculus, male, from which we also get masculine.

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> 5 used as a function word to indicate the means, cause, or manner <sold ~ auction> <laughed ~ his joke> <act ~ your own discretion> 6 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 male at birth (AMAB) n – refers to someone whose sex was assigned as male when born, typically based on their external genitalia. While many transgender and non-binary people are comfortable identifying as AMAB, some prefer not to use this term to describe their experience or the experiences of others.

from – Human Rights Campaign

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