AFAB

**Assigned Female At Birth (AFAB)**, also seen as **Designated Female At Birth (DFAB)** or **Female Assigned At Birth (FAAB)**, is an assigned gender for individuals who have external sex traits that are identified as female. It is used as a way to refer to the sex on one's birth certificate or to discuss medical issues that are primarily faced by AFAB individuals without making assumptions of one's current sex, body or gender identity.

When an individual is born, they are said to be female based on the absence of a penis or a clitoris smaller than a certain size. The individual's internal structure is not checked, including a vagina and chromosomes. Some intersex individuals who were AFAB only discover they don't have a vagina when they are older and some AFAB individuals don't have XX chromosomes.

Traits commonly found in those who are AFAB include:

* A vulva or vagina (POV), unless they are intersex or had them removed later in life.
* A uterus or ovaries, unless if they were born without one or both (agenesis) or had them removed later in life.
* The capacity for ovogenesis/the ability to give birth (PWIB), unless if sterile or without some anatomy listed above.
* Breasts, unless they never developed or they had them removed.
* Has estrogen as their primary sex hormone.
* Chromosomes that are XX.

AFAB individuals who were born with all of these traits are considered dyadic or müllerian, though some dyadic individuals may lose some of these characteristics later in life. Not all individuals who were AFAB were born with all these traits, in which they may be considered intersex. Some intersex individuals were AFAB because they appeared externally female and their condition was not obvious without genetic testing or was not noticed until later in life. Some intersex individuals were **Coercively Assigned Female At Birth (CAFAB)**, meaning they were medically altered without their consent to fit the sex binary.

AFAB individuals are often raised with the assumption that they will identify as cisgender women, however AFAB individuals can be any gender and can have any gender presentation. AFAB women are considered cisgender women. Transgender AFAB individuals are most commonly assumed to be trans men, however non-binary AFAB individuals may also identify as trans. AFAB individuals who identify primarily with masculinity may be called transmasculine.

Other terms for intersex AFAB individuals include **Intersex Assigned Female At Birth (IAFAB)** and **Forcibly Assigned Female At Birth (FAFAB)**.

## Flags & Symbols

The DFAB flag was created by acro-pluris on the Tumblr blog beyond-MOGAI-pride-flags on October 15, 2020. The blue and red stripes represent cis AFAB individuals and trans AFAB individuals, while green and purple represent AFAB individuals who identify as gender modalities other than cis or trans.

The flag for trans AFAB individuals was created by an unknown user on or before August 23, 2015. The blue is for trans men, light blue is for individuals who identify partially as men, white is for agender individuals and anyone who lies outside of the male/female spectrum (abinary), purple is for individuals who identify as men and women or are in between men and women (androgyne/ambinary), and light red is for individuals who identify partially as women.

The IAFAB and CAFAB/FAFAB flags were made by the deactivated user plurgai on or before March 21, 2021. The alternate IAFAB and CAFAB/FAFAB flags were redesigned by another deactivated Tumblr user interarchival on December 27, 2021. There are no known meanings.

## Resources

https://archive.ph/2022.02.12-070010/https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/632047659950194688/dfab-flag

https://archive.ph/2022.02.12-070029/https://www.deviantart.com/pride-flags/art/AFAB-Trans-555613251

## Alternative Flags

Alt trans AFAB flagAlt IAFAB flagAlt CAFAB/FAFAB flag