Usually when I jump into the conversation it’s me defending trans* women against cis women who are acting a little bit TERF-y[…]
2016, Roan Boucher, in "Birthing Beyond the Binary", Squat Birth Journal, Issue 22 (2016), page 25:
They also mentioned they were reading the novel Nevada by Imogen Binnie, which to me was an indication that they were less likely to have the TERF-y (Trans-Ex- clusionary Radical Feminist—a.k.a. transmisogynist) tendencies that unfortunately seem to be common among “women centered” midwives and lesbians.
Um, and some pretty choice things have been said to me in this space that are really TERF-y and really like, “they’re always going to have a dick” and so it’s real, it’s a real thing. That is a real thing.
As the Executive Director of an organization whose mission statement includes …to promote the well being of all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer identified people and those affected by discrimination based on gender identity and expression… and then is flabbergasted by the outcry after she posts some terfy article?
I assumed they were straight and cis, because otherwise they would have known about TERFy women’s lands or at least about the drama of Michfest.
2019, Alexandra Kimball, The Seed: Infertility Is a Feminist Issue, page 100:
Our investment in each other necessarily meant that we were doggedly attentive to the politics, including the TERFy feminist politics, that invalidated each of us.
2019, Ashley Beaufille, quoted in Gabriela Schunn, "I Feel Like A Womxn: Mx. Ashley on Pronouns and Gender Fluidity in the Vintage Scene", The Vintage Woman, Issue 2 (2019), pages 108-109:
Second wave feminism used “womyn” as a way to reclaim the word and apply it to feminism, but this term can be seen as TERF-y (trans exclusionary radical feminist) […]
When were you inclined to listen to people who disagreed with you while being on board with TERFy ideas - either real life friends or people online who were asking you to pull your head in?
2020, Akane Kanai, "Between the perfect and the problematic: everyday femininities, popular feminism, and the negotiation of intersectionality", Cultural Studies, Volume 34, Issue 1 (2020):
Lana, for example, related the disappointment and frustration she felt when reading a blog with ‘like really interesting, really cool articles’ and then ‘there would be something that was like TERFy and I’m like, no’, which required instant disengagement from the blog.
I see my generation of intersectional feminists struggling against the TERF-y, racist and classist tendencies hidden within feminism’s third wave. Establishment journalists write endless op-eds about millennials killing things, we are stuck in a terrible housing market and crushed with student debt and all we can come up with is “OK Boomer” to start to address inequality between generations.
