The way its currently used online, TERF does just mean transphobe. The acutal kind of radical feminist that TERF originally described is very uncommon now, and people didn't have a short and memorable insult for transphobes so TERF was gradually adopted. So now people are calling Graham Linehan a TERF even though he is a misogynistic man.
Plus, transphobes fucking hate it when you call them TERFs.
I think TERF has become a general term for anti-trans, losing its specific denotation as "trans exclusionary radical feminist" and drifting towards a connotation of "trans exclusionary woke person" - possibly even drifting past that to "anti-trans" in general.
How can a cis man be a TERF? TERF isn't a synonym for transphobe, it's a specific ideology that believes:
Obviously all TERFs are transphobes, but not all transphobes are TERFs
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The way its currently used online, TERF does just mean transphobe. The acutal kind of radical feminist that TERF originally described is very uncommon now, and people didn't have a short and memorable insult for transphobes so TERF was gradually adopted. So now people are calling Graham Linehan a TERF even though he is a misogynistic man.
Plus, transphobes fucking hate it when you call them TERFs.
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I've changed my mind - if calling generic transphobes terfs pisses them off, I'm all for it.
I think alot of people including myself didn’t know about the third proposition. most people take TERF as a feminist who excludes trans people.
I think TERF has become a general term for anti-trans, losing its specific denotation as "trans exclusionary radical feminist" and drifting towards a connotation of "trans exclusionary woke person" - possibly even drifting past that to "anti-trans" in general.
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