English

Noun

TERF ‎(plural TERFs)

1. A radical feminist (see radical feminism) who believes that the feminist movement should not include trans women 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.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:TERF.

See also

• transfeminist
• radfem