We all agree terf has not been a useful term for a long time, it implies they're feminists, it implies they're for women, it reinforces their arguments that they're on the side of women and gives them space to hide their more extreme elements.
Why not something like cis-supremacist? Something that is far-right adjacent would be useful in making people properly make this connection, especially given who they're allying with lately.
But it literally says they're "trans exclusive" feminists
This term is great imo because it implies that feminists by definition should also support trans women (obviously), and so when they don't, they are now a "TERF" instead of a real feminist
It acknowledges they are feminists in the name though, which is the problem. They're not. They came up with this term themselves too, it's something they felt accurately described them. The issue is that their ideas are regressive for women, which definitely puts them outside of feminism and nobody should linguistically entertain the idea that they are.
Just want to add on to this. Their ideas are indeed regressive for women. Obviously for trans women, but cis women as well. The problem for TERFs is the more you obsess over trans people, the more impossible it becomes to continue to be a feminist. They love to reduce women to physical attributes, their policies regularly interfere with the lives of any woman not performing traditional feminine gender roles, and notably in Britain they are literally trying to repeal feminist legislation just to own the transgenders.
so uh yeah FART is a very apt acronym. unfortunately it is not very serious
Exactly, this is cis-supremacy. Their goal is holding cis people in a supremacist position and keeping trans people heavily marginalised, they didn't care about trans people improving their lives whatsoever until eggshells started to break in extremely large numbers, then it was suddenly a threat to the system. The numbers of trans people rose above a level that became threatening and these supremacists seek to eliminate or suppress that.
before people who didn't know the details got hold of the term, TERFs were people like those "womyns music festival" types and were genuinely interested in abortion rights, girlbosses (before we had that term), workplace equality, maternity leave, having a seat at the table of power, and so on. all for cis women of course, because trans women don't exist or supposedly don't need any of those things.
we differentiate between white feminists and meghan mccain, we used to differentiate between TERFs and antifeminist liberal transphobes, but a bunch of people didn't and the "but i'm a feminist" transphobes don't seem like they're doing much feminism anymore, so here you are wanting a better term.