An abbreviation of "trans exclusionary radical feminist"
Someone, usually a white cisgender woman, who believes trans women shouldn't be a part of feminism or included in feminist movements because they don't have female reproduction systems or primary sex characteristics.
Terfs often belive that transgender women are all predatory older men, and that transgender men are all confused teenage girls. In the act of excluding trans women from feminism, they also tend to exclude infertile cis women and cis women who have had a hysterectomy or mastectomy.
Terfs also tend to fit themselves into swerf (sex work exclusionary radical feminist), gender critical, and misandrist identifications
Someone, usually a white cisgender woman, who believes trans women shouldn't be a part of feminism or included in feminist movements because they don't have female reproduction systems or primary sex characteristics.
Terfs often belive that transgender women are all predatory older men, and that transgender men are all confused teenage girls. In the act of excluding trans women from feminism, they also tend to exclude infertile cis women and cis women who have had a hysterectomy or mastectomy.
Terfs also tend to fit themselves into swerf (sex work exclusionary radical feminist), gender critical, and misandrist identifications
by Plague! July 17, 2022
Get the TERFmug. Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist.
Feminists who live in the 19th century and do not recognize trans rights
Feminists who live in the 19th century and do not recognize trans rights
- Trans women are not women. They are men wearing dresses
- You’re such a TERF. Go buy yourself a life at Walmart
- You’re such a TERF. Go buy yourself a life at Walmart
by Mucca January 25, 2019
Get the TERFmug. by QueeneBlade April 13, 2022
Get the TERFmug. Trans-Exclusive “Radical” Feminism. A very outdated, populist-identitarian ideology that defines gender “woman” as a derivative of biological “reality” and is focused on fabricating narratives centered around an enclosed identity (of victimhood). It claims to be radical, but in actuality it is even less radical than liberalism that it criticizes. Overall it’s just pure trash. TERF IS NOT A SLUR. TERF is a fair and appropriate name for a certain tendency. And nobody should take TERFs seriously.
by attacidioloji May 31, 2019
Get the TERFmug. The least based subset of feminists of all time. It's an acronym for Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists, but there's nothing radical or feminist about them. Unironic misandrists who don't let their hatred of men stop at just men; they see trans women as villains and trans men as lost lesbian sisters.
A: Bro JK Rowling is really on her terf madness again
B: During pride month, a pandemic, and a global human rights movement?
A: Yes :(
B: During pride month, a pandemic, and a global human rights movement?
A: Yes :(
by YourTrueAdvisor June 6, 2020
Get the TERFmug. by Anarrrchia January 5, 2021
Get the TERFmug. by jesusdiedforour cynthias December 29, 2018
Get the terfmug.