I don’t identify as a man, but rather as genderqueer and bigender, and my preferred pronouns are ze/zan.

I use the term FTM-spectrum to mean that I am a trans person assigned female at birth (AFAB: female-bodied or born female, if you understand that better, although I don’t identify with either of these terms).  Thus, I am transition in the gender FtoM direction.

I use “FTM-spectrum” instead of “AFAB trans person” because focusing on the birth sex assignment rather than the direction of transition can sometimes cloud my point.  For example, I most often use this term when discussing privilege. FTM-spectrum people have more privilege than MTF-spectrum privilege, as the latter experiences transmisogyny and the former does not.  This is due to male privilege. However, non-binary FTM-spectrum folk do not have male privilege (while trans men do).  However, even non-binary FTM-spectrum folk have more privilege than non-binary MTF-spectrum folk and in some respects even trans women.  There’s no name for this type of privilege that I am aware of.

There are problems with this term, primarily that many AFAB trans people don’t identify with “FTM”.  However, I prefer it to the alternatives: “transmasculine”, “transfeminine” (I could go on about how wrong these two are at nauseum, but one of the reasons is that not all FTM-spectrum folk are masculine, and not all MTF-spectrum folk are feminine) or “trans-female spectrum”, “trans-male spectrum” (many non-binary folk may not identify anywhere near female or male, or on the spectrum at all).