Citations:TERF Island

English citations of TERF Island and Terf Island

Proper noun: "(slang, derogatory) The United Kingdom, viewed as a centre of gender-critical feminism, or more broadly of transantagonistic policies and attitudes"

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• 2018 October 17, Jenna Tills (@stalinfan69), Twitter‎^[1]:

  people always act so surprised when i mention that america is probably the best place in the world to be trans, at least in certain areas, but fucking Terf Island is still at it, with no signs of slowing the fuck down

• 2021 February 26, Maya Forstater (@MForstater), Twitter‎^[2]:

  NY Times does another article about the terrible women of TERF Island...but without talking to any of them of course.

• 2021, Ell Folan, "TERFs Don’t Speak for Women – But Don’t Take It From Me, Look at the Polls", Novara Media, 8 June 2021:

  Perhaps we aren't marooned on TERF Island after all.

• 2021, Abigail Thorn, quoted in Chris Kaye, "Meet Abigail Thorn, the trans philosopher who wants to kill James Bond", Insider, 21 August 2021:

  And something that I wanted to just circle back to, this idea of being the transgender princess of TERF island thing.

• 2021, Mary Harrington, "The Gender Resistance", First Things, 14 September 2021:

  In contrast with the often-polarized American discourse, “TERF Island” as depicted in Trans and Material Girls emerges as a contemporary, feminist-inflected outworking of Britain’s longstanding Burkean tradition.

• 2021 September 28, Helen (@mimmymum), Twitter‎^[3]:

  If you want to know why the news media on TERF Island is so transphobic, Graham Linehan has inadvertently let the cat out of the bag!
  Apparently, there’s a secret WhatsApp groups of trans-hostile journalists & ‘gender critical’ transphobes strategising to attack trans people 😖

• 2021, Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Maw #2, unnumbered page (published 20 October 2021):

  Well, now I know the mysterious curse of TERF Island.

• 2021, Josephine Bartosch, "The way forward", The Critic, 21 October 2021:

  But one thing that does make me genuinely proud to be British is that we are now known to trans activists across the world as “TERF Island”.

• 2021 October 25, Clara (@OswinOswald223), Twitter‎^[4]:

  If you ever wonder why TERF Island is so bad, the media are the ones stoking the flames.

• 2021 December 13, Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu), Twitter‎^[5]:

  Do I want to know why the Queen of TERF island is trending?
  I do not.

• 2022, Lola Phoenix, letter to the editor, Mills Quarterly (Mills College, Oakland, CA), Winter 2022, page 3:

  What Mills, the mostly women workplaces I have been in, and my now-decade of residence in the UK (which is becoming known as "TERF Island") have taught me is that feminist– as in actually feminist –spaces are important and desperately needed.

• 2022, Laura Miles, "Marxism, moral panic and the war on trans people", International Socialism, Issue 173, Winter 2022:

  It will also consider why Britain is seen by many as a hotbed of transphobia, with some trans people referring to it as “TERF island”, while others consider emigration.

• 2022, Sarah Ditum, "Do Britons favour trans rights? The truth is most people self-identify as ‘don’t knows’", The Times (UK), 20 February 2022:

  If Britain really is Terf Island, Sturgeon is determined to lead a breakaway section.

• 2022 May 3, James Stephanie Sterling (@JimSterling), Twitter‎^[6]:

  When I came back to the UK this year people said, “are you sure you want to leave the US? It’s really bad in the UK right now.”
  Yeeeeah I’m gonna take my chances on Terf Island.
  That should say a lot about how terrifying the US has become.

• 2022 July 1, M Berntson (@JediMB), Twitter‎^[7]:

  If Sweden could follow this example instead of listening to propaganda from TERF Island, that'd be great.