Citations:TERF

English citations of TERF

Noun: "a radical feminist who believes that the feminist movement should not include trans women or address trans-related issues"

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• 2013 April 4, Charles E. Hardwidge, “Re: Tale of the Laser - redux”, in rec.photo.digital‎^[1] (Usenet):

  TERFs (Transgender Exclusionist Radical Feminists) are a laughing stock with most of the mainstream third wave feminist movement and the emerging fourth wave feminists are actively embracing transgender people.

• 2013, Toni Browning-Early, letter to the editor, QNotes, Volume 28, Number 6, 19 July - 1 August 2013, page 4:

  Dear "A Lesbian Democrat"

  Your TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) agenda and what it represents is no better than the bigoted regressive agenda of the religious right.

• 2013, Natacha Kennedy, "Cultural cisgenderism: Consequences of the imperceptible", Psychology of Women Section Review, Volume 15, Number 2, Autumn 2013, page 5:

  By way of example, within some religious groups and Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs) transphobic cultures exist which represent internally highly institutionalised transphobic cultures.

• 2013, Rachel Eliason, "Wired This Way", ACCESSline, Volume 27, Number 12, December 2013, page 13:

  At the further extreme TERF’s^[sic] actively promote the message that banning trans women from feminist gathering implies—that trans women are not really women at all.

• 2014, Cristan Williams, quoted in "Furor Erupts Over Cathy Brennan and Gender Identity Watch", South Florida Gay News, Volume 5, Issue 8, 19 February 2014, page 15:

  The historical TERF movement was directly involved in stripping access to psychological and medical care from the trans community in the 1980s.

• 2014, Tessa Stuart, "TERF Battle: A New Book Reignites the War Between Radical Lesbian Feminists and Trans Women", The Village Voice, 24 June 2014:

  The Internet and social media have only relocated this long-running war online, even as mainstream feminists have banished TERFs — "Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists," as trans allies call the opposition, a label the feminists consider a slur — to the outer fringes of the movement.

• 2014, Roz Kaveney, "Woman Enough, The Advocate, 16 July 2014:

  Perhaps the sheer nastiness of TERFs comes from the fact that they don’t just know they’ve lost; they know they were on the wrong side from the beginning.

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German citations of TERF

• 2017, Salman Rushdie, Golden House:

  »Bist du nun nicht nur eine TERF, sondern auch eine SWERF? Vielleicht bist du nicht einmal mehr eine RF? Was bist du? Bist du überhaupt jemand?«