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English citations of CAFAB, CAMAB, and coercively assigned

CAFAB/CAMAB

Phrase: Acronym of "coercively assigned female/male at birth"

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Early cites
  • 2010 August 7, tony (@tonyinabag), Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2025-06-25:
    @ropeboi the C in cafab stands for "coercively"
  • 2010 August 20, “Trans women, lactation and exclusion”, in She Has My Eyes‎, archived from the original on 2023-02-08:
    I wanted to thank you for raising an issue that even I – a coercively assigned-male-at-birth genderqueer person – had not thought about much
  • 2010 August 30, Lisa Harney, Questioning Transphobia‎, archived from the original on 2012-05-14:
    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.
  • 2010 October 21, Katherine Alejandra Cross, Cross With You‎, archived from the original on 2024-08-01:
    Perhaps the most famous metaphor of this sort is one so many of us use, one that is a media favourite, and that many “allies” use to conceptualise our existence. I am a trapped in a body.
  • 2011 January 14, B. Egalitarian (@treasoning), Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2025-06-25:
    CAFAB person being prosecuted in Scotland for having sex whilst CAFAB - lucypaw: http://tumblr.com/x0n19f4blh
  • 2011 March 29, lilacwood @lilacwood, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 2025-06-25:
    @maverynthia not sure we're on the same page. a trans girl's (someone coercively assigned male at birth, CAMAB) body will usually make...
Use in discourses relating to intersex people (and erroneous folk etymology examples)
  • 2011 August 9, thatswhatkentsaid, “On the Terms 'CAFAB' and 'CAMAB'”, in Tumblr‎, archived from the original on 2011-11-06:
    So, I have fairly recently been introduced to two terms in the trans* community: CAFAB and CAMAB. They stand for Coercively Assigned Female At Birth and Coercively Assigned Male At Birth.They are similar to FAAB (Female Assigned At Birth) and MAAB (Male Assigned at Birth), the obvious difference being the use of the word “coercively.”

    I have a problem with the use of the word “coercively.” I think perhaps this terminology invalidates the experiences of intersex individuals.

    I understand that “coercively” is used to indicate the lack of agency involved in sex assignment at birth. However, I do not think this constitutes coercion.
  • 2011 October 7, intersexunicorn, “FAAB, MAAB, CAMAB, FAMAB and Intersex Erasure”, in Tumblr‎, archived from the original on June 26, 2025:
    First, ‘assigned.’
    This is (*was*) a word for intersex children. A child was born ambiguous and was assigned a sex with scalpels and sutures. ‘Assigned’ is a verb, meaning something physical happened. Someone did something physical to you. Second, ‘coercively assigned.’
    So at birth you popped out of the womb and had a lengthy discussion about your gender that your doctor wouldn’t listen to? Your birth doctor was coercive in convincing you at birth that you weren’t what you are? For someone to just come along and say, “O I AM CAMAB 2 LOL” just hurts beyond belief.
  • 2012 May 16, princeofsparkles, “Language update?”, in Tumblr‎, archived from the original on June 26, 2025:
    So I guess DMAB/DFAB is a new acronym going around. It stands for Designated Male/Female at Birth. It's being used in place of M(F)AAB, AM(F)AB, and especially CA- prefix for trans* individuals who are not intersex.

    These stand for, respectively, Male (or Female) Assigned at Birth, Assigned Male at Birth, and Coercively Assigned Male At Birth. Assigned, but especially Coercively Assigned are terms referring to intersex people and the specific, often violent, problems they face. "Coercively assigned" means with a scalpel.
  • 2014 July 16, grdhfgkjfhgfhfkjgfdsfgdkhf-deac, Tumblr‎, archived from the original on June 26, 2025:
    > mellopinions-blog asked: no ok but ive heard that cafab/camab is only for intersex people but then??? idk????? ur intersex so i trust ur opinion on this
    Yes, it is. Specifically intersex people who have had “corrective” genital surgery at birth to make them more like average male/female.
    If this didn’t happen to you, you were not “coercively assigned” any gender.
  • 2019 January 15, spookyscaryscouticus, Tumblr‎, archived from the original on June 26, 2025:
    Hey I just wanna point out that CAMAB/CAFAB (coercively assigned male/female at birth) specifically refers to intersex people whose autonomy was overridden to medically assign them a binary physical sex as infants or children.
    It’s not just... Anyone who came out of the womb and was assigned a sex according to their genitals.
  • 2020 September 12, uwumars, Tumblr‎, archived from the original on June 26, 2025:
    hey im pretty sure that cafab/camab, like adding coercively to afab/amab is intended for intersex people who got assigned a binary gender at birth not for perisex ppl.
  • 2024 November 19, luxiomahariel, Tumblr‎, archived from the original on June 26, 2025:
    making a separate post for this but holy fuck do NOT use CAGAB/CAFAB/CAMAB to talk about ALL trans people/transfems/transmascs. that is EXPLICITLY only for INTERSEX PEOPLE WHO WERE MEDICALLY ABUSED AT A VERY YOUNG AGE. ITS REALLY FUCKING INTERSEXIST TO STEAL THAT TERM FROM INTERSEX PEOPLE AND APPLY IT TO A LARGE GROUP IN WHICH ONLY A FRACTION OF SAID GROUP IS EVEN INTERSEX
Attestations
  • 2014, Marie Margaret Keller, Salmacis' alchemical pool: Gender diversity and the transformation of culture‎, PhD dissertation, order no. 3621743 on ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global:
    Many trans people who were coercively assigned female at birth (CAFAB) may look much younger than they are, especially if they are not on hormones, are on a low dose of hormones, or are just starting hormones.
  • 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.
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