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CAMAB
- (LGBTQ) Acronym of coercively assigned male at birth.
- Synonyms: AMAB, DMAB, MAAB
- Coordinate term: CAFAB
2010 August 30, Lisa Harney, Questioning Transphobia, archived from the original on 14 May 2012:The question of socialization is one of those topics where we all start debating how many trans people can dance on the head of a pin, and focusing on socialization as if we’re all programmed like little computers while we’re growing up, as if gendered socialization is launched at us like laser-guided missiles and CAFAB children receive only socialization aimed at girls and CAMAB children receive only socialization aimed at boys, and all us trans people are just like cis people who share our CASAB until the day we start transition.
2017, Rhea Ashley Hoskin, “Femme Theory: Refocusing the Intersectional Lens”, in Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice, volume 38, number 1, →ISSN:Take, for instance, the different consequences of gender deviance for those designated or coercively assigned male at birth (DMAB/CAMAB/AMAB) compared to those designated or coercively assigned female at birth (DFAB/CAFAB/AFAB). Developmental psychology has concluded that boys face more repercussions than girls for gender role violations (Kilianski 2003, 38).
2022, Wei Norton Motulsky, The queers are here: LGBTQ+ young adults’ mental health outcomes in wilderness therapy, PhD thesis, order no. 29398474 on ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global:Regarding the second point, the constructs of sex, gender, and sexual orientation rapidly fall apart when considered concurrently; indeed, a person who was CAFAB or CAMAB (coercively assigned male or female at birth) and who identifies as non-binary already transgresses the dichotomous relationship between sex and gender.
2024, Ruben Shimonov, Marielle Tawil, “At the Intersection of Sephardic, Mizrahi, and LGBTQ+: The Story of a Community Emerging out of the Margins”, in Marla Brettschneider, editor, Jewcy: Jewish Queer Lesbian Feminisms for the Twenty-First Century:Transmisogyny refers to the unique marginalization faced by transgender women and people interpreted by society to be transgender women--most centrally, CAMAB (coercively assigned male at birth) trans individuals.
Usage notes
The earliest uses of CAFAB and CAMAB are in the context of the entire transgender community, but a common erroneous folk etymology popularized on Tumblr asserts it to be an intersex-exclusive term that originated in the intersex community, which has led some to use alternative terms like DFAB and DMAB. See Citations:CAMAB for further context.
Adjective
CAMAB (not comparable)
- (LGBTQ) Acronym of coercively assigned male at birth.
- Synonyms: AMAB, DMAB, MAAB
- Coordinate term: CAFAB
Noun
CAMAB (plural CAMABs)
- (LGBTQ) A CAMAB person.
- Coordinate term: CAFAB
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