CAFAB

1. abbreviationacronymAcronym of coercively assigned female at birth.

   @ropeboi the C in cafab stands for "coercively"

   2010 August 7, tony (@tonyinabag), Twitter, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2025

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   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.

   2010 August 30, Lisa Harney, Questioning Transphobia, archived from the original on 14 May 2012

   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.

   2014, Marie Margaret Keller, Salmacis' alchemical pool: Gender diversity and the transformation of culture, PhD dissertation, order no. 3621743 on ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

   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).

   2017, Rhea Ashley Hoskin, “Femme Theory: Refocusing the Intersectional Lens”, in Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice, volume 38, number 1, →ISSN

   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.

   2022, Wei Norton Motulsky, The queers are here: LGBTQ+ young adults’ mental health outcomes in wilderness therapy, PhD thesis, order no. 29398474 on ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

   Synonyms: AFAB, DFAB, FAAB

1. abbreviationacronymnot comparableAcronym of coercively assigned female at birth.

   Synonyms: AFAB, DFAB, FAAB

plural CAFABs

1. A CAFAB person.