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TERFery en · NOUN

Etymology

From TERF + -ery.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of holding trans-exclusionary feminist views.
    • can't stop thinking about all these British ladies that apparently need the smelling salts because a judge ruled that TERFery isn't an equality act PROTECTED CHARACTERISTIC akin to disability, race, sex, religion or sexual orientation 2019 December 19, Christa Peterson (@christapeterso), Twitter:
    • We're doing the usual road from "just asking questions" to "trans are being mean to me" to full-blown terfery and at this point can we just skip to the end? 2021 October 23, Ana Mardoll (@AnaMardoll), Twitter:
    • But accusations of TERFery have been sufficient to intimidate many people, institutions and organisations I once admired, who’re cowering before the tactics of the playground. 2020 June 10, J. K. Rowling, J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues:

Synonyms

TERFdom