• RNAi [he/him]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    Non english speaker, I thought it wasn't transphobic to say "female" when referring to "XX people" instead of "XX = girl/woman" that do is transphobic.

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      4 years ago

      Nah, at least as far as I'm aware, at most when referring to people assumed to be XX you'd call them AFAB (assigned female at birth) and for likely-XY people you'd say AMAB (assigned male at birth).

      There are quite a few other combinations of sex chromosomes (XXX, XXY, X, plus some others - you can basically keep adding Xs onto them up to a point) and people with those combinations often don't know they have them, so really it's hard to make too many assumptions about people's chromosomes anyway.