Citations:TERFism

Noun: "the beliefs on trans people held by TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists)"

 * 2015, Emma Tranter, "No: The University shouldn't be giving a platform to promote transphobic speakers", Gair Rhydd (Cardiff University), 2 November 2015, page 15:
 * Trans student activist Em Travis, who helped organise the protest, said "I wonder if those who dismiss TERFism [trans exclusionary radical feminism] and other transmisogyny as a mere difference of opinion, rather than recognising it as violence, have ever considered what it's like to be part of a community where a standard day involves news of another murder or suicide.
 * 2018, Aniruddha Dutta, "Allegories of Gender: Transgender Autology versus Transracialism", Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice, Volume 39, Number 2 (2018), page 90:
 * Contemporary TERFism, or trans exclusive radical feminism, extends such arguments to deny the validity of transgender identities.
 * 2018, CeCe McDonald, quoted in Mia Fischer, Sarah Slater, CeCe McDonald, & Joshua Allen, "Transgender Visibility, Abolitionism, and Resistive Organizing in the Age of Trump: A Conversation with CeCe McDonald and Joshua Allen", QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, Volume 5, Number 3, Fall 2018, page 189:
 * She was a low-key TERF but she didn’t want to admit that and that’s literally on the heels of me explaining what TERFism is to somebody in the class.
 * 2019, Rachel Anne Williams, Transgressive: A Trans Woman on Gender, Feminism, and Politics, page 239:
 * The validation always comes after the lifelong internalization of transphobic messages we see constantly promulgated in the mainstream media, the numbing regularity of TERFism being splashed across op-ed pages and uttered by prominent feminists,
 * 2019, Robby Soave, Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump, unnumbered page:
 * TERFism is clearly unpopular with Zillennials.