hi, nice to meet you~! i'm dani, a trans lesbian, passionately intersectional feminist, and adorable pony! she/her please~! 
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just got inspired: instead of explaining cis and trans in terms of "assigned" gender, i'm gonna start explaining them like you are cisgender if society managed to guess your gender correctly when you were born otherwise you're transgender
also: since society guesses exactly one gender when you're born, and then you find out what genders are, and then you get the chance to switch, transness is basically a variant monty hall problem with an infinite number of doors so that's neat
this is actually how i've been saying it too! "when you're born a doctor guesses your gender. if they're right, you're cis. if they're not, you're trans. 'assigned [X] at birth' means that's the gender they guessed"
Explain, how exactly is it a "guess"?
at the time you're a tiny baby with no conception of what a gender is, let alone any way to communicate yours accurately. you can't express that information to society, so instead, society literally just guesses.
But saying that, gender has changed a lot in meaning over the past few years - with people preferring to unlink it from the biological side of things. The Doctor is not wrong in saying the baby is either a boy or a girl because that is often how it works, they aren't guessing.
that's /often/ how it works, but far from /always/ how it works - there's no reliable way to determine a baby's gender, and the gender that society assigns has proven to be incorrect for a statistically significant demographic. functionally, assigning gender at birth is guessing.
Also, what is it with the whole gender is a social construct business
basically that it's factual, since gender is indeed a social construct? it's pretty simple really
I saw an analogy one time that was also like, if they say "i couldnt imagine being (other gender)!" just tell them to imagine everyone started calling them the wrong pronouns and insisting theyre not who they currently are.
Great idea in theory, but for cis people who want the framing to be (for example) "Was a boy, now a girl" that might be a few steps too far for them. I hope not, though! Because that is a better way to frame it, definitely.
I've found something similar useful: "When I was born, they said, 'it's a [boy/girl]! ...and they were right." (The cis example, obvs)
This is good I’m stealing it
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