• Binarist: Are you AMAB or AFAB?
• Me: Why do you need to know?
• Binarist: I’m just curious.
• Me: What about it provokes your curiosity?
• Binarist: …
• Binarist: Oh my God, I can tell you’re AFAB because you care so much about this shit!

The whole conversation is usually a bit more convoluted than this obviously, but this showcases this line of thinking well enough, and I hate it. What does that last line even mean? Like I said, this kind of interaction, in some variation, has happened to me more than once. There have been people online have who tried to guess my assigned sex at birth, and they always say AFAB.

Little do they know, I was, in fact, assigned male at birth.