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Definition of 'TERF'English
Noun
( en-noun)
A radical feminist (see (radical feminism)) who believes that the feminist movement should not include transwomen or address trans-related issues.
* 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 , 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 , 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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