Birth assignment

Birth assignment, also called gender assignment or assigned gender at birth (abbreviated AGAB), refers to assigning a gender to an infant based on their designated sex at birth, which is usually based only on the appearance of their external genitalia. Birth assignments are recorded as "sex" on birth certificates with the assumption that an individual's eventual gender identity will match their birth assignment—assigned male at birth (AMAB) or assigned female at birth (AFAB). People whose gender identity aligns with their birth assignment are cisgender; transgender people have a gender identity that differs from their assigned gender at birth. This practice also ignores natural sexual variations, such as various intersex traits, or treats those variations as problems to be "fixed".
==See also==
*Cisgender
*Cisnormative
*Endosex
*Gender binary
*Intersex
*Transgender
==References==
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ja:出生時に割り当てられた性別
es:Género Asignado al Nacer
de:zugewiesenes Geschlecht
pt-br:Gênero designado