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Related: About this forumWhat is a TERF and why should you be worried?
You may have heard of the term TERF in the last few months, and you may just be wondering what exactly it is.
TERF is an acronym for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist, in other words a transphobic bigot. It sounds extreme, but recently examples of TERFs have been creeping up everywhere.
Examples that might stick out include the leading feminist writer, Chimamanda Adichie, who appeared on Channel 4 and denied that transgender women could be women because they had experienced male privilege.
Dame Jenni Murray, host of BBC Radio 4 Womans Hour also made the same suggestion in a column for the Sunday Times Magazine that was titled Be trans, be proud but dont call yourself a real woman.
Germaine Greer joins Adichie and Murray with her trans-exclusionary rhetoric, and faced criticism and protest before appearing at an International Womens Day event in Brighton.
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TygrBright
(20,755 posts)Runningdawg
(4,514 posts)LostOne4Ever
(9,288 posts)They are just another form of Rightwingers.
This can be seen by their reaction to the Youtube shooter a while back:
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/04/05/anti-trans-feminists-push-conspiracy-theory-that-youtube-shooter-was-a-trans-woman/
They said she wasn't "feminine enough" to be a "real woman" and that women were incapable of committing such acts of violence. And remember, these people claim to be RADICAL FEMINISTs.
And it is important to note that TERFs never call themselves TERFs. Despite the terms well known history,They claim it is a smear, and instead use the term GENDER CRITICAL FEMINISM.
They are bigots no matter what label they try to apply to themselves.
Odoreida
(1,549 posts)After all, TERFs are "lunatic fringe" types and not very influential.
Whereas trans-hatred is all around.
JarOCats
(119 posts)On social media -- and IRL -- I block them on sight.
Ts are my family, just as much as Ls, Gs, B's, and Q's.
Oh, and Germaine Greer can get stuffed.