"errr uhhh as a transfeminist i think amab/afab terminology is problematic and we should be trying to move past it because--" fucking stand up and fight it then. call yourself afab and talk in earnest about your female socialization. scramble the signals and see what happens

highkey been considering calling myself cis for this reason . and also because i think it would be funny

RE: https://social.xenofem.me/objects/c5c7211e-2fc0-4dcf-9a21-d09f37ba6cc6

@erin i've done this a few times around very woke aware rad/lib types, like to also sprinkle in a little "actually i'm cisgendered, because my gender identity is the same as my socialization, blah blah blah, i'm just transsexual blah blah blah (i'm not the most fond of this framing b/c intricate tranny discourse politics reasons but in terms of rhetorical subversion for normies it works just right to slip past their filters). The main push back i've gotten was from a nb transmasc gender studies graduate who wanted to dispute it, proving themselves as a cop pig gendersex police