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Citations:TERFdom

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English citations of TERFdom and terfdom

Noun: "(neologism) the state or quality of holding trans-exclusionary feminist views"

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  • 2018, Alex Zaragoza, "No time for TERFdom", San Diego City BEAT, 10 July 2018, page 8:
    Only do one better than Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie—whose speech was sampled for that song and who was called out for TERFdom and transphobia—and move that logic beyond the sexes.
  • 2019, Melanie Phillips, "Making the world perfect always ends badly", The Australian, 8 March 2019:
    Formerly ultra-radical feminists such as Germaine Greer and the domestic violence campaigner Julie Bindel, who insisted that a person with male genitalia was a man, accordingly found themselves shouted down for the crime of Terfdom.
  • 2019, Vivian Kane, "J.K. Rowling Leaves Little Doubt About Her TERFdom", The Mary Sue, 25 June 2019
  • 2019, Philip Matthews, quoted in Tess Nichol, "TERF wars: Adopting - then abandoning - a 'cult-like' movement", Metro (Auckland), 7 November 2019:
    One of the things that snapped me out of it finally was a video by Natalie Wynn, aka [Youtuber][sic] ContraPoints, titled “Gender Critical”, and she concludes that TERFdom is about the flimsiest cloak of feminist platitudes draped over disgust and hate.
  • 2019, Kitty Underhill, in "Who's Your Feminist Icon?", The Unedit, 25 November 2019:
    TERFdom is violent and rife worldwide, and especially in the British media.
  • 2020, Anna Piper Scott, "JK Rowling Comes Out... As Transphobic", Melbourne Star Observer, January 2020, page 17:
    For a large number of us trans folk, Rowling's descent into the bowels of TERFdom has been distressing to watch.
  • 2020, James Kirkup, "JK Rowling and the road to terfdom", The Spectator, 8 June 2020:
    So are many of the women (and men) who have gone before her on the road to terfdom.

Noun: "(neologism) the community of tran-exclusionary feminists as a whole"

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  • 2019, Stephen Daisley, "Holyrood’s trans rights pause is a good thing", The Spectator (UK), 21 July 2019:
    Reinforcements came in the form of Canadian feminist Meghan Murphy and British activist Julie Bindel, the Thelma and Louise of terfdom in the eyes of the trans movement – a ‘terf’ being a ‘trans-exclusionary radical feminist’.
  • 2019, Philip Matthews, quoted in Tess Nichol, "TERF wars: Adopting - then abandoning - a 'cult-like' movement", Metro (Auckland), 7 November 2019:
    In the UK, TERFdom is centred on academics, especially feminists and philosophers, so it also taps into those arguments about free speech and deplatforming in universities.