found: Work cat: Work cat: Vajjala, E. Gender-critical/genderless? : a Trans narratives and discourses radical feminism (TERF) in Feminist current, 2020(summary: "Feminist Current is a multi-author Canadian self-proclaimed feminist website which frequently publishes trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF) discourse via blogs, podcasts, and global news. This project is a critical discourse analysis of the ways in which Feminist Current communicatively constructs and deconstructs transgender identity in problematic and exclusionary ways"; "This discourse functions to separate transwomen from women's spaces and position transwomen as illegitimate and aggressive, while simultaneously repositioning radical feminism as a superior ideological framing") (OCoLC)1246551106
found: Lodge, R. Trans narratives and discourses in Jamison Green's Becoming a visible man, Matt Kailey's Just add hormones, and Max Wolf Valerio's The testosterone files, 2016(summary: "Chapter 2 analyzes Green, Kailey, and Valerio's responses to trans-exclusionary radical feminism") (OCoLC)1026388666
found: Encyclopedia of queer studies in education, 2022p. 695 ("trans-exclusionary radical feminism positions trans subjectivities as oppositional to the ethos of 'radical' feminist thought"; six basic arguments of trans-exclusionary radical feminism include "the abolition of gender as a means of eradication transgender identities; state-sanctioned support of trans communities constitutes a conspiracy against (cis)womanhood, particularly cis-identifying lesbians; trans women are men who attempt to co-opt the power of identifying as a woman; trans men are women who 'betray' their cis counterparts; trans-inclusive feminism is not actually feminism; and that certain 'valid' modes of womanhood, femininity, and queerness both exist and should be enforced. Common amongst these arguments in the supposed essential nature (biological essentialism) of sex and gender--conflations which are starkly at odds with the lived realities and epistemologies of trans people") (OCoLC)1290723769
found: How to spot TERF ideology, via The CUSU Women's Campaign website, viewed Apr. 28, 2022("'TERF' stands for 'trans-exclusionary radical feminism'. Terf ideology is a specific form of transphobia, and more specifically transmisogyny, as terfs mostly target trans women and transfeminine people"; "According to terf ideology ... Womanhood is supposedly defined exclusively by 'sex-based' oppression, aka oppression as a result of being what terf ideology terms 'biologically female'. This idea weaponises a reductive understanding of 'biology' to argue that 'women' - or those assigned female at birth - all experience gendered oppression in the same way, which erases our diverse experiences of gender as it intersects with race, class, sexuality, disability, and many other structural factors")
found: Simon, B. E. J.K. Rowling and the Order of the TERFs : a critical discourse analysis into the construction of 'TERF' ideology transforming UK gender politics, 2021:Abstract ("This research paper will be exploring the 'Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) discourse in light of the recent debates surrounding transgender rights"; "TERF movement"; "My research will show how TERF ideology is constructed by discourses utilizing power and transphobic language and privileges an essentialist view of sex and a politics of gender that is regressive to everyone") p. 12 ("The backlash to the reforms of the GRA are coming from a minority of feminist groups labeled as TERFs, who argue that allowing a transgender person to self-declare their gender will reduce the safety and well-being of cis women. They argue for women's 'sex-based rights', proposing a reinstatement of sex as the main source of women's oppressions") p. 22 (TERF ideology includes the positing of "the transgender rights movement as a political threat that is in opposition to women's rights" and "that transgender women's very embodiment of womanhood is an existential and physical threat to cisgender women everywhere")
found: Clayman conversations: three scholars examine the TERF industrial complex, Oct. 5, 2020, via The Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University website, viewed Apr. 28, 2022("TERF-ism")
found: Dictionary.com, viewed Apr. 28, 2022(TERF: "an acronym for 'trans-exclusionary radical feminism' or 'trans-exclusionary radical feminist'"; "TERF is used to describe cisgender women who self-identify as feminist but who are opposed to including transgender women in spaces they reserve for people who were assigned female at birth. This is because they believe trans women are men and since men cannot coexist with their feminist ideologies, they exclude them from their beliefs and support. In fact, they often believe they should be denied rights and sometimes advocate for harm against trans people")
found: Burns, K. The rise of anti-trans "radical" feminists, explained, Sep. 9, 2019, via Vox website, viewed Sep. 14, 2022("Online roots of the term TERF originated in the late 2000s but grew out of 1970s radical feminist circles after it became apparent that there needed to be a term to separate radical feminists who support trans women and those who don't"; "They now prefer to call themselves 'gender critical,' a euphemism akin to white supremacists calling themselves 'race realists'"; "Gender-critical propaganda is almost entirely focused on the supposed depravity of trans women"; "Gender-critical feminism, at its core, opposes the self-definition of trans people, arguing that anyone born with a vagina is in its own oppressed sex class, while anyone born with a penis is automatically an oppressor. In a TERF world, gender is a system that exists solely to oppress women, which it does through the imposition of femininity on those assigned female at birth"; "Above all else, their ideology doesn't allow for trans people to have self-definition or any autonomy over their gender expression")
found: The Bloomsbury handbook of 21st-century feminist thought, 2019t. p. ("Trans-exclusionary feminism")
found: Google search, Sep. 14, 2022("transgender-exclusionary radical feminism" 685 results; "transgender-exclusionary feminism" 10 results; "gender-critical feminism" 17,600 results; "trans-exclusionary radical feminism" 18,700 results; "trans-exclusionary feminism" 3520 results; "terfism" 10,500 results; "terf-ism" 1890 results)
