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TERF

An abbreviation of "trans exclusionary radical feminist"

Someone, usually a white cisgender woman, who believes trans women shouldn't be a part of feminism or included in feminist movements because they don't have female reproduction systems or primary sex characteristics.
Terfs often belive that transgender women are all predatory older men, and that transgender men are all confused teenage girls. In the act of excluding trans women from feminism, they also tend to exclude infertile cis women and cis women who have had a hysterectomy or mastectomy.
Terfs also tend to fit themselves into swerf (sex work exclusionary radical feminist), gender critical, and misandrist identifications
Rebecca: Ew, he's such a genderist troon
Amy: her pronouns are she/her you terf whacko.
by Plague! July 17, 2022
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Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist.

Feminists who live in the 19th century and do not recognize trans rights
- Trans women are not women. They are men wearing dresses
- You’re such a TERF. Go buy yourself a life at Walmart
by Mucca January 25, 2019
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A group of women that, belong to a vagina cult and believe that if you were a woman and are now a man, you are disgusting and have taken the easy way out of avoiding the oppression of the patriarchy. Or if you are a man that is now a woman you are similarly disgusting and are trying to infiltrate the cult. They are the main reason feminism has such a bad name.
Person 1: “hey Timmy you look sad what’s up

Timmy: “ I went to a feminism rally was verbally assaulted by this random woman who said I couldn’t be here because I have ‘betrayed my fellow sisters’”

Person 1: “wow they must be a real piece of shit judging you for doing something they should be supportive of”

Timmy: “it was just a terf though so I can’t let it affect me”
by Justbeahalfdecentperson June 24, 2019
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A bigoted and hate filled slur against woman, pushed by trans men who feel repressing women will help their cause. TERF: trans exclusionary radical feminist. The mere term is ignorant of the fact that it is not radical to stand up for actual women and it is ridiculous to exclude women for men trying to appear as a woman. It demonstrates the entitled and clueless nature of current western youth.
That woman is such a terf thinking women’s rights apply to them but not men attempting to become female.
by Educated thinker March 28, 2021
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Me: I thoughts she said she was a feminist?
Them: Not really she’s just a TERF
by QueeneBlade April 13, 2022
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Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist. A fake feminist that is a little too obsessed over women´s genitals.
JK: What if I go to the women´s bathroom and I see a penis?
Anna: Have you been spying over bathroom stalls again? God, you´re such a Terf.
by butitwasmonday April 2, 2021
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Trans-Exclusive “Radical” Feminism. A very outdated, populist-identitarian ideology that defines gender “woman” as a derivative of biological “reality” and is focused on fabricating narratives centered around an enclosed identity (of victimhood). It claims to be radical, but in actuality it is even less radical than liberalism that it criticizes. Overall it’s just pure trash. TERF IS NOT A SLUR. TERF is a fair and appropriate name for a certain tendency. And nobody should take TERFs seriously.
TERF: don’t call me a TERF you sexist prick
by attacidioloji May 31, 2019
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