Female-bodied is a term used to describe people who were designated or assigned female at birth, or a person who sees themselves as having a female body.
Female-bodied is a term used to describe people who were designated or assigned female at birth, or a person who sees themselves as having a female body.
Although this term seems to make sense to describe people with female bodies, "female-bodied" is not a term that's accepted within the trans and non-binary communities.
"Female-bodied" erases the idea that trans women's bodies are female bodies. It contains the description of "female" to cis women, and it encourages us to still think about bodies in the male-female dichotomy which is so harmful to men and women, cis or trans, as well as gender-fluid or non-binary people.
