often initialised to SCAB, it refers to the sex assigned at birth, and sometimes used by intersex people to refer to one of the two biological sexes they were forced into adopting at birth. The term is very specific to intersex people, because it relates to the coercion they faced as infants, such as having […]

shorthand for designated sex at birth.

the sex assigned at birth; that is, typically, male or female.

in Queer contexts, this refers to the practice of “correcting” babies and toddlers with intersex variations with medical interventions. Although sometimes such interventions may be necessary (for example, to prevent or reduce future health problems, such as to improve urinary or faecal continence), many are controversial and seek to erase the intersex variations altogether; for […]

an individual who is not intersex/does not have an intersex variation. Put simply, an individual whose sex characteristics meet medical or social norms for ‘male‘ and ‘female‘ bodies.

Intersex is an umbrella term for individuals that are born with sexual, reproductive, anatomical or chromosomal traits that are outside of the “typical” male/female sex binary. There is a wide range of intersex variations (previously referred to as ‘disorders of sex development‘).  Many individuals with intersex variations have been forced into becoming “anatomically correct” (that […]

The sex assigned to an individual when born; that is, typically, male or female as it may appear on one’s birth certificate. A transgender individual is somebody who identifies their gender differently to their sex assigned at birth. By comparison, someone whose sex assigned at birth is the same as their gender (that is, their […]

An initialism for sex assigned at birth.

an outdated term for an individual who has an intersex variation, typically someone born with the physical characteristics of both men and women, specifically in relation to the genitals and breasts. In reproductive biology, hermaphrodite is used to describe fauna and flora that has both kinds of reproductive organs, and can produce both gametes associated […]