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Complaining about 'assigned female at birth'

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howmanybicycles · 08/03/2023 19:17

My son (year 9) attended a presentation at school today offered by an external organisation. The woman used the term 'assigned female at birth' which I consider to be a slur. I'm tempted to complain but wanted to get my facts behind me first. Has this, in our current anti-female dystopia, become an 'accepted term'? Is there anything I can quote which shows the damage this sort of obfuscating language does?

She also told the kids that what you were 'assigned' was what the 'doctor' said when you were born which is quite a micro-aggression towards women, I thought, given that the baby's sex is actually recognised by the (usually female) midwife and not the (often male) doctors!

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nepeta · 04/05/2023 20:11

Justme56 · 04/05/2023 19:49

To me it suggests it is arbitrarily decided. It also gives the impression that it can easily be reassigned which ultimately is what some people want to be pushed.

Yes, I believe this is one of the intentions here: To suggest that biological sex may have been arbitrarily assigned to many more people than this ever could happen to, and that changing sex is therefore not only physically possible (it's not) but often necessary, to correct wrong assignments.

HootyMcBooby76 · 04/05/2023 20:25

Sex is no more "assigned at birth" than babies are "assigned" with two legs and two arms.

It is fixed at the moment of conception, irrevocably and immutably.
It is observed and documented at birth.

I would go so far as to say that even in the case of catastrophic DSDs where the genitalia is absolutely obscure, that sex is still not "assigned" and that they wait until the baby is karyotyped and found to be either male or female.

The days of arbitrarily chucking a "gender" at a child and hoping for the best are long gone since the advances in chromosomes and DNA.

The whole "assigned" at birth is a ploy by the TRA who would love for people to believe that sex is on a spectrum that one can float between on any given day, that there exists some sort of sliding scale and therefore that men can be women if they say so or vice versa.

The binary truth of sex does not comply with their narrative or their agenda, and using obscure language like "assigned at birth" plays into this ideology because it attempts to blur the lines between the sexes.

I know some people who still believe that all foetuses are female.

Biology has taken a nose dive since this ideology crept like a fungus on society. I believe it's mainly down to social media where a vast amount of trans "personalities" who have large followings of young people, spread disingenuous and factually incorrect nonsense which is touted as "truth". These youngsters will grow into adults who will then perpetrate the myths.

There's a reason why so many trans "personalities" are so keen to gain young followers.

littlbrowndog · 04/05/2023 20:30

HootyMcBooby76 · 04/05/2023 20:25

Sex is no more "assigned at birth" than babies are "assigned" with two legs and two arms.

It is fixed at the moment of conception, irrevocably and immutably.
It is observed and documented at birth.

I would go so far as to say that even in the case of catastrophic DSDs where the genitalia is absolutely obscure, that sex is still not "assigned" and that they wait until the baby is karyotyped and found to be either male or female.

The days of arbitrarily chucking a "gender" at a child and hoping for the best are long gone since the advances in chromosomes and DNA.

The whole "assigned" at birth is a ploy by the TRA who would love for people to believe that sex is on a spectrum that one can float between on any given day, that there exists some sort of sliding scale and therefore that men can be women if they say so or vice versa.

The binary truth of sex does not comply with their narrative or their agenda, and using obscure language like "assigned at birth" plays into this ideology because it attempts to blur the lines between the sexes.

I know some people who still believe that all foetuses are female.

Biology has taken a nose dive since this ideology crept like a fungus on society. I believe it's mainly down to social media where a vast amount of trans "personalities" who have large followings of young people, spread disingenuous and factually incorrect nonsense which is touted as "truth". These youngsters will grow into adults who will then perpetrate the myths.

There's a reason why so many trans "personalities" are so keen to gain young followers.

Great post 🙌🏽🙌🏽

GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut · 04/05/2023 20:42

Makes you wonder why farmers bother paying for sexed semen, doesn't it? When they could just tell the calf he's (she? They? Dunno) a girl. Assigned heifer at birth. Maybe that's how they sex the semen - give it a stern talking to?

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