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.
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.