TabbsTheBat (they/them)

They/Them A chaos bean bat/bunny. I do art sometimes

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  • If I were working as a barber/hairdresser, and the place where I worked decided to exploit my private life so they could rebrand as an “AFAB-run hair salon”, I would run so fucking fast lol.

    Maybe it’s just english being my 2nd language, but I was under the impression that the phrase “blank”-run usually refers to the owner? So the AFAB in AFAB-run would be the employer who set the sign referring to themselves? If im wrong on this, then yeah that adds an extra dimension of weirdness to it

    I’ve already come across 2 websites I tried to sign up to where they had no gender field at all and only a “sex assigned at birth” field.

    Yeah that one doesn’t sound too good lol. Definitely feels like either a dog whistle or someone incompetent who’s missing a lot of nuance that comes with transitioning


  • AMAB/AFAB comes to mind. I think these terms are highly inappropriate and reductive. Think “AFAB-run hair salon” (yes, this was a real thing… tell me this doesn’t give TERF energy)

    However, I have noticed that a lot of nonbinary people introduce themselves in this way. (“I’m afab nonbinary” etc.) I don’t understand the logic of introducing yourself with the gender you were assigned at birth.

    Okay, so… as an enby the “AFAB-run hair salon” does sound weird to me lol. If someone wants to identify as that, that’s their choice to I suppose. In regards to the other thing I have introduced myself with my AGAB but only really when that information was relevant to the topic at hand, like discussing childhood experiences or matters concerning physiology and such, I personally prefer to leave that information out if not needed, but I don’t really see it as a big deal if other people do that? I mean I know plenty of trans girls and guys who will introduce themselves as a trans guy/girl off the rip, which is basically saying your AGAB, and if they’re fine disclosing that I don’t necessarily have an issue with it

    The transmasc/transfem is not something I personally dealt with a lot, so im not gonna budge in on that tho