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I heard someone say recently that the only major, sticky divide in the trans community is basically this. People who do this weird shit where they reinvent the wheel of discrimination and bioessentialize based on AGAB vs the "it's all socially constructed?"
people.
I'm bad at explaining it but you know what I mean. The bioessentialist types are firmly in the "I want nothing to do with you" camp in my book. Honestly except in the limited circumstances where it makes a practical difference, any reference to AGAB is sus to me. Don't make that your identity, why are you even trans if you're gonna just identify with your agab all the time anyhow?
Even then, you don't need AGAB to explain a lot of the things people are asking, but you can derive it from the language otherwise.
Examples:
People who go out of their way to characterize AGAB as making you a "certain kind of enby" or just a weird spin on cis (or, in some cases, even trans) people of your assigned sex give me an awful headache.