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female-assigned

female-assigned

English

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female-assigned (not comparable)

  1. (LGBT) Judged at birth to be female. (Babies with unambiguously female sex organs are routinely judged to be female, but so are some intersex babies or babies with ambiguous genitalia.)
    • 2007, in Z magazine, volume 20, issues 1-6, page 20:
      White believes that female-assigned trans people can support the work of her organization []
    • 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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