2013 April 4, Charles E. Hardwidge, “Re: Tale of the Laser - redux”, in rec.photo.digital[1] (Usenet):
TERFs (Transgender Exclusionist Radical Feminists) are a laughing stock with most of the mainstream third wave feminist movement and the emerging fourth wave feminists are actively embracing transgender people.
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.
By way of example, within some religious groups and Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs) transphobic cultures exist which represent internally highly institutionalised transphobic cultures.
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.
The Internet and social media have only relocated this long-running war online, even as mainstream feminists have banished TERFs — "Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists," as trans allies call the opposition, a label the feminists consider a slur — to the outer fringes of the movement.
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.
