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Originally Posted by Niamh.
It seems to have just morphed into a "catch all" insult to hurl at anyone who doesn't follow the trans agenda to the letter these days, it's pretty inter changeable with "transphobe"
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True, and I doubt half the people using it even know what the acronym stands for. Interchangeable in a way but of course, you'd rarely hear men referred to as "TERF", though often as "transphobic" so I think there's some inherent misogyny in it as well as a descriptor.
Its a bit of a moot term in the first place I find - it's not really feasible to be an "RF" without being "TE"
. Part of radical feminism would involve a focus on the effects of male socialisation, and thus an acceptance that transwomen can never actually have the same experience in any meaningful way.
That of course doesn't have to mean "wanting to eradicate trans people" - just accepting that being trans (a person of one gender choosing to present aesthetically and socially as the other gender) is not the same as actually being that gender, and is a separate category in itself. Or in short... that transwomen are transwomen (and that's entirely their choice and business), but not women...
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