TRA

Noun

 * 1) * 2018, Una-Jane Winfield, written evidence submitted to the consultation in the United Kingdom in 2018, page 2:
 * Attempts to compel ordinary people to use the “preferred pronouns” of TRAs will backfire as this is coercion.
 * 1) * 2020, anonymous, quoted in Christina T. Lu, "A computational approach to analyzing and detecting trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) on Twitter", thesis submitted to Dartmouth College, page 43:
 * Of the gender ideology that Stonewall and TRAs are flogging, as opposed to a person having dysphoria, loathing their genitalia & body, and feeling they are in need of medical interventions.
 * 1) * 2021, anonymous, Shonagh Dillon, "#TERF/Bigot/Transphobe – We found the witch, burn her!: A contextual constructionist account of the silencing of feminist discourse on the proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act 2004 [...]", thesis submitted to the University of Portsmouth, page 406:
 * People use that acronym [TERF] all the time as though it isn’t offensive, and it really is offensive…and it just shows how successful the TRAs have been in framing themselves as victims and the rest of us are witches.
 * 1) * 2018, Una-Jane Winfield, written evidence submitted to the consultation in the United Kingdom in 2018, page 2:
 * Attempts to compel ordinary people to use the “preferred pronouns” of TRAs will backfire as this is coercion.
 * 1) * 2020, anonymous, quoted in Christina T. Lu, "A computational approach to analyzing and detecting trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) on Twitter", thesis submitted to Dartmouth College, page 43:
 * Of the gender ideology that Stonewall and TRAs are flogging, as opposed to a person having dysphoria, loathing their genitalia & body, and feeling they are in need of medical interventions.
 * 1) * 2021, anonymous, Shonagh Dillon, "#TERF/Bigot/Transphobe – We found the witch, burn her!: A contextual constructionist account of the silencing of feminist discourse on the proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act 2004 [...]", thesis submitted to the University of Portsmouth, page 406:
 * People use that acronym [TERF] all the time as though it isn’t offensive, and it really is offensive…and it just shows how successful the TRAs have been in framing themselves as victims and the rest of us are witches.
 * 1) * 2018, Una-Jane Winfield, written evidence submitted to the consultation in the United Kingdom in 2018, page 2:
 * Attempts to compel ordinary people to use the “preferred pronouns” of TRAs will backfire as this is coercion.
 * 1) * 2020, anonymous, quoted in Christina T. Lu, "A computational approach to analyzing and detecting trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) on Twitter", thesis submitted to Dartmouth College, page 43:
 * Of the gender ideology that Stonewall and TRAs are flogging, as opposed to a person having dysphoria, loathing their genitalia & body, and feeling they are in need of medical interventions.
 * 1) * 2021, anonymous, Shonagh Dillon, "#TERF/Bigot/Transphobe – We found the witch, burn her!: A contextual constructionist account of the silencing of feminist discourse on the proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act 2004 [...]", thesis submitted to the University of Portsmouth, page 406:
 * People use that acronym [TERF] all the time as though it isn’t offensive, and it really is offensive…and it just shows how successful the TRAs have been in framing themselves as victims and the rest of us are witches.
 * Of the gender ideology that Stonewall and TRAs are flogging, as opposed to a person having dysphoria, loathing their genitalia & body, and feeling they are in need of medical interventions.
 * 1) * 2021, anonymous, Shonagh Dillon, "#TERF/Bigot/Transphobe – We found the witch, burn her!: A contextual constructionist account of the silencing of feminist discourse on the proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act 2004 [...]", thesis submitted to the University of Portsmouth, page 406:
 * People use that acronym [TERF] all the time as though it isn’t offensive, and it really is offensive…and it just shows how successful the TRAs have been in framing themselves as victims and the rest of us are witches.

Usage notes
It is used mainly as a derogatory term by opponents of the trans rights movement. Supporters of the trans rights movement have maintained that it is a slur or dysphemism constructed to draw a parallel to.