TERFy
English
Alternative forms
- TERF-y
- terfy
Adjective
TERFy (comparative TERFier, superlative TERFiest)
- (informal, neologism) Resembling, characteristic of, or related to trans-exclusionary feminism or those who hold such views.
- 2016, "Peter", quoted in T. J. Jourian, "'My Masculinity Is a Little Love Poem to Myself': Trans*masculine College Students’ Conceptualizations of Masculinities", dissertation submitted to Loyola University, page 238:
- Usually when I jump into the conversation it’s me defending trans* women against cis women who are acting a little bit TERF-y […]
- 2018 October 18, Tori Truscheit, “The Rage of All Women”, in Slate:
- I assumed they were straight and cis, because otherwise they would have known about TERFy women’s lands or at least about the drama of Michfest.
- 2020, Quinn McGlade-Ferentzy, "Heterosexist Suspicion of a Queer Outsider", thesis submitted to the University of Guelph, page 46:
- After years of being shamed for their bodies, is celebrating their monthly moons and the power of their uterus inherently TERF-y?
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:TERFy.
- 2016, "Peter", quoted in T. J. Jourian, "'My Masculinity Is a Little Love Poem to Myself': Trans*masculine College Students’ Conceptualizations of Masculinities", dissertation submitted to Loyola University, page 238:
Usage notes
- See notes at TERF.
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