TERFdom

English

Alternative forms

• terfdom

Etymology

From TERF +‎ -dom.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɜːfdəm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɚfdəm/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)fdəm

Noun

TERFdom (uncountable)

1. (neologism) The state or quality of holding trans-exclusionary feminist views.

   Synonym: TERFery

   • 2018 July 10, Alex Zaragoza, “No time for TERFdom”, in San Diego City BEAT, 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, 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.

   • 2020 January, Anna Piper Scott, “JK Rowling Comes Out... As Transphobic”, in Melbourne Star Observer, page 17:

     For a large number of us trans folk, Rowling's descent into the bowels of TERFdom has been distressing to watch.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:TERFdom.

Usage notes

• See notes at TERF.