TERFspeak

English

Etymology

From TERF +‎ -speak.

Noun

TERFspeak (uncountable)

1. The jargon and rhetoric of gender-critical or trans-exclusionary feminists.
   • 2018 March 13, venyle (@cold_inthewater), Twitter‎^[1]:

     Truth be told parroting actual TERFspeak for it's^[sic] comedy value might have been a bad call.

   • 2019 December 17, fern +r | Badenlily (@fernseasons), Twitter‎^[2]:

     "Trans-identified male" is TERFspeak for trans woman.

   • 2022 March 3, Bette Joy (@SlaggitySlag), Twitter‎^[3]:

     “Respecting other people’s boundaries” is just TERFspeak for “trans women are not welcome to use public spaces”.

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