TERFS

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For a Spanish version of the TERF is a slur website, click here.

Saw this on a public fb group page. Never knew Nedra was quite this awesome.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Much as I agree with Nedra Johnson’s quote, being called a ‘TERF’ doesn’t exactly cut to the quick. Many fantastic and inspiring women are disdained as TERFs so being called one myself feels like being tortured by comfy chair. Then again, I don’t care about being called a cow or a bitch or a slut or any of the other terms of abuse largely reserved for women and to which ‘TERF’ are the modern-day equivalent.

History

It started as an acronym for Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist. The term was reportedly first used by women involved with the now defunct Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival to differentiate between those, like Viv Smythe, who did and the radical feminists who didn’t think that men who claim to be women should be accepted as such. Smythe has proclaimed on Twitter that she is not a radical feminist.

Usage

Nowadays it is widely used as a slur against anyone – regardless of whether they are radical or feminist or even female – who dares to question any part of trans ideology.  It is even used against trans-identifying people of both sexes. The purpose of labelling critics ‘TERFs’ is to dismiss, dehumanise and silence rather than engage with reasoned criticisms.

Users of the term tend to be disingenuous and say it isn’t a slur, it is merely descriptive. However, anyone looking at how it’s used and whom it is used against can see this for the nonsense it is. It is never used in a neutral, respectful or objective way. On the contrary, it is frequently accompanied by insults and abuse. So much abuse, in fact, that a website was once set up to document it. To make the header to this website, I typed out the content of many of the screenshots collected and I’ve decided to preserve them on a separate page here. If you’d like to see them in their original form, go directly to the terf is a slur site.

The word was used a lot by those celebrating the assault on me at Speakers’ Corner and I’ve put some of those on a different page here.

There is also a website created by a member of the trans cult called the terfs.

Radical feminists who exclude male-born trans people from the category known as ‘women’ do not also exclude them from housing, employment, education, or from local, national and UN protections and certainly don’t exclude them from “fully participating in society as equal citizens”. What absolute codswallop! Nor do they hate people because they are trans, which is also claimed on that site. On the contrary, the evidence that many are friendly and supportive to trans-identifying people who support women in our fight against misogynistic trans ideology is easily found on social media.

 

A charming message sent to me on twitter

Thus, the allegations to this effect are so preposterous that I can’t be bothered to say any more about that silly website except that, in spite of the nameless creator’s best efforts to collect hateful quotes from ‘TERFs’, the most he could find was a couple of loonies wishing men dead and not even wishing they could kill men themselves. Compare this to the dozens of tweets by trans and allies wanting to set us on fire, break our bones,  choke us with their dicks, etc, etc.

And, by the way, there is this thing called ‘terf blocker’ on Twitter, which allows trans activists and allies to mass block anyone designated a TERF, which means anyone who has questioned or opposed any part of the trans agenda. It means I don’t have to spend time arguing with idiots on whom my superior reasoning skills and incisive wit are wasted. The block list is also a wonderful resource for people looking for gender-critical twitter accounts to follow but beware that even people not exactly known for their radical feminism, such as the Welsh Tory MP David T C Davies, are on it.

 

Videos and Articles

Finally, here are some videos on TERFs.

What is a “TERF”? PiaMacXX 03.11.18

‘TERF’ and ‘Cis’: Misogyny and Homophobia in Transgender Culture Miranda Yardley and Rya Jones.

Here are a couple by Magdalen Berns:

 “T.E.R.F Wars”… Receipts Please

What is a TERF?

 

And here are some articles:

Andrew Neil, 74, says he is pleased to be branded a ‘TERF’ because that puts him in the same camp as JK Rowling Mail 31.07.23

Using “TERF” Randomly & Other Signs Your Misogyny Is Showing Gay City News 13.03.20

Blog: Contrapoint on TERFs Maria MacLachlan 30.07.19

Welcome to the age of ironic bigotry, where old hatreds are cloaked in woke new language Helen Lewis 01.05.19

TERF’: A handy guide for irresponsible journalists, shady academics, and irate men Meghan Murphy 01.04.19

It isn’t TERFs who are bigoted – it’s their persecutors Brendan O’Neill 28.01.19

On Cis & TERF – a twitter thread by @adogcalledbambi 10.12.18

TERF a derogatory term to shut down debate Rachel Stewart 28.11.18

I’m credited with having coined the word ‘Terf’. Here’s how it happened Viv Smythe 28.11.18

Don’t Call Women ‘Terfs’ Speak Up for Women 18.11.18

“TERF Is Hate Speech and It’s Time to Condemn It” Amy Dyess 25.10.18

What is a TERF? Sarah Ditum 29.09.17

Derogatory Language in Philosophy Journal Risks Increased Hostility and Diminished Discussion Daily Nous 27.08.18

Toxic Trans: The Strange Case of Morgane Oger and the BC NDP Jonathon Kneeland 28.07.18

Watching the TERFs Angry Bird Roar 28.03.18

Young Women Attack Dykes their Grandma’s Age LavenderJoan 02.07.18

Queer-identified women physically assault lesbian at a gay bar AfterEllen.com 06.06.18

Beginners Guide to Terfdom Angry Bird Roar 02.05.18

There’s a TERF war brewing Jonathon Kneeland 04.05.18 (Archived here in case it disappears)

How I became a TERF The Feminists Hood 08.04.18

Shut up, TERF Lily Maynard 06.03.18

A letter to the woman who called me a TERF CR on Fair Play for Women 10.12.17

The RPOJ – Feminism Does Not Have to Be Trans-Exclusionary – Actually, it does. Dead Wild Roses blog 04.10.17

Why ‘TERF’ isn’t just a word, it’s hate speech Meghan Murphy 21.09.17

When you write about misogyny, prepare for more misogyny Jessicapsych 15.06.17

How to spot a Secret TERF  Devon Unsilenced 28.04.17

Seven Sure-fire Ways To Demolish TERFs Online Devon Unsilenced 18.02.17

What makes a word a slur? DebUK 16.11.16

The word ‘TERF’ Rebecca Reilly-Cooper 01.11.16

Why I no longer hate ‘TERFs’ Penny White 10.11.15

How ‘TERF’ works Sarah Ditum 29.07.14

 

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