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male-assigned

male-assigned

English

Adjective

male-assigned (not comparable)

  1. (LGBT) Judged at birth to be male. (Babies with unambiguously male sex organs are routinely judged to be male, but so are some intersex babies or babies with ambiguous genitalia.)
    • 2009, Eli Clare, Dean Spade, Exile & Pride: disability, queerness & liberation (ISBN 0896087883), page 148:
      [] a world much more complex than one divided into female-assigned women and male-assigned men.

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