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TERFisms: the MAAB/FAAB binary

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Anti-trans RadFems, AKA Trans Exclusionary RadFems (TERFs) – not to be confused with non-hate radical feminism (AKA, feminism) – claim that gender is a fallacy. As an ironic (though the irony is completely lost on them) substitute, they’ve invented a binary system they call FAAB and MAAB. Once someone is Male Assigned At Birth (MAAB), they are endowed with a privilege that can never be removed, degraded or overcome. A homeless monolingual undocumented transwoman escaping her country of origin due to anti-trans violence has more privilege as a MAAB than a rich, white Female Assigned At Birth (FAAB) corporate banking attorney. The transwoman proves this by demanding access to the same homeless shelter space as non-transgender women. If the transwoman uses the same restroom as the FAAB corporate banking attorney might, the rich attorney is being oppressed by MAABness. Also, if the transwoman gets frustrated by the FAAB corporate attorney

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Community significance

“TERFisms: the MAAB/FAAB binary” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to feminism and gender politics, while also engaging violence, safety, and dehumanization. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning feminism and gender politics. Published in 2013 by The TERFs, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how violence, safety, and dehumanization was framed at that moment.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is public accommodations and facilities and housing and social services. It links that institutional frame to feminism and gender politics and violence, safety, and dehumanization, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

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Themes

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Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
100%
2
Violence, safety, and dehumanizationTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
75%
3
Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
50%
4
Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
17%
5
History, archives, and memoryTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
13%

Academic framing

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Archival research
100%
2
Critical theory
100%

Policy framing

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Public accommodations and facilities
100%
2
Housing and social services
100%

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How “Feminism and gender politics” appears across the Collective corpus

This article was published during the theme’s highest-presence year in the registered corpus (2013).

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2 2006

16 2007

2 2008

3 2009

2 2010

7 2011

9 2012

95 2013

42 2014

19 2015

20 2016

40 2017

7 2018

3 2019

2 2020

3 2021

1 2024

1 2025

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