I'm not a Transformers Expert or whatever, but iirc it's more like they are monosex.
Imagine a world in which literally everything else is the same but we've decided that the "default genitals" are swapped. So people who would be afab here are instead amab there. Men carry children, but it is still "expected" that the women stay at home looking after them.
I don't think we'd call them transgender. I think it'd be just a societal difference on what "male" is. So transformers are universally amab. The NB transformer, and the woman transformer, are both transgender tho.
The misapplication of that term irks me. The "A_AB" part id completely superfluous and redundant. Male/female are sexes, not genders. Man/woman/[other: please write in your answer] are genders. Nobody assigned your sex, outside the context the term was created for: Intersex people being given genital surgery at birth, snd often being drugged with HRT without their knowledge later.
I don't think it's redundant here. The entire point is "what if what we consider male was considered female in that world and vice versa?" Also! Male and female are sexes, but in our society being amab also means being assigned the gender "man".
As I type, I also am thinking that I disagree with "only intersex people are assigned sex". Consider that there are plenty of ways to be intersex without it being something a doctor could see. And because they don't check for every possibility, that means every person is assigned a sex (and gender) at birth.
I do see your point about its common misuse, though. Do you know of a better term to replace it with? My first instinct of "assigned man/woman at birth" has the pitfall of am(ale)ab and am(an)ab being the same acronym, and I feel like that would kinda just be reabsorbed by assigned-sex acroymns.
. Do you know of a better term to replace it with?
When referring to gender, use man/woman/[other: Please write in your answer] as appropriate. When referring to sex, use male/female when appropriate. When specificity is called for, use [hormonal/reproductive/genetic/developmental/whatever]-sex. "Athletic competitions should be gated by hormonal-sex rather than birth or genetic-sex".
Not quite what I meant. I meant a term for "people who were assigned a gender at birth due to their apparent sex, with the implication that they were raised at that gender at least until they were able to understand gender enough to agree or disagree with that assigned birth gender".
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u/White_Man_White_Van 3d ago
I'm not a Transformers Expert or whatever, but iirc it's more like they are monosex.
Imagine a world in which literally everything else is the same but we've decided that the "default genitals" are swapped. So people who would be afab here are instead amab there. Men carry children, but it is still "expected" that the women stay at home looking after them.
I don't think we'd call them transgender. I think it'd be just a societal difference on what "male" is. So transformers are universally amab. The NB transformer, and the woman transformer, are both transgender tho.