male-assigned

English

Adjective

male-assigned (not comparable)

  1. (LGBT) Judged at birth to be male.
    • 2009, Eli Clare, Dean Spade, Exile & Pride: disability, queerness & liberation →ISBN, page 148:
      […] a world much more complex than one divided into female-assigned women and male-assigned men.

Usage notes
  • Babies with unambiguously male sex organs are routinely judged to be male, but so are some intersex babies or babies with ambiguous genitalia.

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