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TERF Island en · PROPN
Meanings
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(derogatory, slang) Great Britain or the United Kingdom, viewed as a centre of gender-critical feminism, or more broadly of transphobic policies and attitudes.
I explained that a national culture of "no-nonsense" anti-utopianism prevails on TERF Island.
2025, Sophie Lewis, Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation, unnumbered page:'TERF Island' had a heads-up only because of a strong feminist tradition, which, being international in its approach, saw what was happening to women in other countries.
2024, Jenny Lindsay, Hounded: Women, Harms and the Gender Wars, unnumbered page:And something that I wanted to just circle back to, this idea of being the transgender princess of TERF island thing.
2021, Abigail Thorn, quoted in Chris Kaye, "Meet Abigail Thorn, the trans philosopher who wants to kill James Bond", Insider, 21 August 2021
Relateds
Normal Island