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Tell me, what does someone gain by knowing what gender you were assigned at birth? How is their understanding of you deepened by knowing what the doctor said when they looked at you after you were born? I'd argue, nothing.

I'll use the easiest example for why agab terms are pointless first. Someone who is non-binary usually uses the pronouns they and them. In doing so, they have separated themselves from the gender binary. So, to ask that person what their agab is would be to drag them back into the gender binary they seek to separate from. Asking "Are you amab or afab" is no different than asking, "But what's your actual gender?" The only difference is that one uses more "progressive" language.

I'll even take it a step further and argue that the binary enforced by agab terms limits not just queer people, but cis people as well. To pull from my own experience, I am someone who was assigned male at birth. I am also someone who currently identifies as male. And those two facts are not connected. I am not male because someone assigned that label to me. I am male because that is the gender I am most comfortable identifying with. I am more comfortable with myself and my identity because it is a label I chose for myself, not one I was given by others.

And I want to be clear, I'm not trying to argue that I am in some way part of the trans community despite being cis. I am arguing that attaching afab or amab to one's gender identity, no matter what that identity is, is limiting. It simply places everyone back into the two boxes that the trans and queer community have been trying to break out of for decades.

My job: "Ok, sounds good."

Me: "Alright, now I can plan things for those days since I know I'll have them off."

My job, two weeks later: "Actually, due to staffing shortages, we need every PM employee to work a mandatory extra shift on one of their days off for the entire summer."

Me: "Could we change how we arrange shifts or hire more employees to fix this problem?"

My job: "Lol no. That's too much work, and we don't have the budget for more employees."

Me: "But we have the budget for scheduled overtime on our days off?"

First, was Adis the one to create the song, or did he learn it from someone else, and if so, who?

Second, are the specific words of the song necessary for healing, or will any song do, and this was simply what the song's creator chose?

Bobby is the sweetest, nicest, kindest man in existence, always going above and beyond for the people he cares about. And here he is dropping insults that would reduce a man to dust if said to literally anyone else.

Celine is at all times a calm, business oriented professional, never letting the facade of emotionless expertise crack. Yet here she is, shouting every profanity in the book at a volume and intensity so loud it's a wonder half of Seoul can't hear them.