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English
Etymology
From TERF + -dom.
Pronunciation
Noun
TERFdom (uncountable)
- (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 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.
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