CAFAB

English en LGBT :af male<id:sex> at<id:on> birth<id:childbearing> Pronunciation kāʹfăb, en /ˈkeɪfæb/Benson, B. M. (2012). Lesbian/queer/same-gender-loving women graduate students in mental health related fields: A grounded theory of attitudes toward transgender individuals (Order No. 3528144). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (1037992262). en eɪfæb 2 Phrase phr en LGBTQIA en coercively assigned female at birth. en AFAB DFAB FAAB en CAMAB en 2010-08-07 tonyinabag 20525313615 tony @ropeboi the C in cafab stands for "coercively" https://archive.is/wip/MnrDd 2025-06-25 en 2010-08-30 Harney Lisa https://web.archive.org/web/20120514024237/http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=2884 http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=2884 2012-05-14 Questioning Transphobia 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. en 2014 Marie Margaret Keller Salmacis' alchemical pool: Gender diversity and the transformation of culture 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. PhD dissertation, order no. 3621743 on ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global https://www.proquest.com/docview/1547944267/fulltextPDF/65149129EC564AFDPQ/2?accountid=9758&sourcetype=Dissertations%20&%20Theses en 2017 Rhea Ashley Hoskin Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice Femme Theory: Refocusing the Intersectional Lens 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). 38 1 0702-7818 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/589741ed3e00be25e11ff113/t/59eb8d87f43b55d5a6ff08af/1508609416393/Femme_Theory_Refocusing_the_Intersection.pdf en 2022 Wei Norton Motulsky The queers are here: LGBTQ+ young adults’ mental health outcomes in wilderness therapy 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. PhD thesis, order no. 29398474 on ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global https://www.proquest.com/docview/2726043643?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true&sourcetype=Dissertations%20&%20Theses 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:CAFAB for further context. Adjective - en LGBTQIA en coercively assigned female at birth. en AFAB DFAB FAAB en CAMAB Noun en LGBTQIA A CAFAB person. en CAMAB References