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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • So before I explain, it’s important to keep in mind that for these discussions I’m adhering to the separation of “gender” and “sex” as different terms. Your sex is your physical attributes, and your gender is a mental thing-- do you see yourself as a boy or a girl (or, as some people do, something different from both of those options-- I’ll stick to the two main genders here).

    This means that transgender girls are people who were “assigned male at birth” (they have a male sex / their appearance caused people to treat them as a boy) and later realized that they see themselves as girls. They may or may not have physically transitioned (ie. changed sex), or may be in a state of partial transition (since genitalia, hormones, and some other things all make up sex, and those can disagree).

    TL;DR: A transgender girl was born physically male, now considers themselves to be female, and may or may not have physically transitioned to match that new identity.

    I appreciate you taking the time to look into this! It can definitely get complicated, especially if you start looking into edge cases, and in some regions it’s pretty rare to meet someone like this IRL, so natural exposure can be low.

    Edit: As a useful guide I’ll also give a short list of transgender-related acronyms:

    • AMAB = Assigned male at birth
    • AFAB = Assigned female at birth
    • FTM = Female-to-Male (transitioned to male, aka “trans man”)
    • MTF = Male-to-Female (transitioned to female, aka “trans woman”)
    • HRT = Hormone Replacement Therapy (taking hormones to promote physical changes to align your sex with your preferred gender)