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{{Warning}}[[File:Terf.jpg|thumb|220x220px|The TERF "pride flag
'''Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs)''', also known as '''Trans-Exclusionary Radicals (TERs)''' or '''Feminism-Appropriating Reactionary Transphobes (FARTs)''', are transphobes who justify their transphobia under the guise of feminism. TERFs are known for hatred of [[Transgender|trans]] women particularly.
TERFs often prey on young, uneducated gay people (particularly [[Lesbian|lesbians]]) to indoctrinate them into their ideology. Because of this, there is a large age discrepancy in TERF groups. Older TERFs (usually around their 30s) have been kicked out of local real life LGBT+ spaces due to their transphobia, so they turn to the internet to spread their bigotry. They often target young (around 12-15) lesbians who likely do not have access to real life LGBT+ spaces, and are therefore less educated on LGBT issues and are easier to manipulate. To those not familiar with TERF ideology it can be difficult to spot it, as TERF mask their bigotry with the guise of feminism. They will often make statements about "men", if one did not know that person is a TERF one would not assume that statement actually meant trans women. By hiding what they're actually saying behind more innocuous statements, they can get people to agree with them and from there can indoctrinate them into their way of thinking.
While an autonomous group, TERFs are part of the greater reactionary movement of so-called<ref>[https://medium.com/@transphilosophr/how-to-be-a-gender-critical-feminist-fdf6705c234a Medium post questioning the "critical" in TERFs gender-critical ideology.]</ref> gender-criticals.<ref>[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2158244020927029 Scholarly article "Philosophical Problems With the Gender-Critical Feminist Argument Against Trans Inclusion" by Aleardo Zanghellini for ''SAGE Open''.]</ref>
== TERF Ideology ==
=== Transphobia ===
TERFs' main doctrine is that trans people do not exist. They believe that trans women are actually men who are trying to invade women's spaces
=== Obsession with "Biology" ===
Similarly they sometimes use the word "womyn". This alternate spelling was originally meant as a way to avoid the suffix 'man'. However it was adopted by TERFs to mean cis women. TERFs also use the womyn-born-womyn (WBW) to mean "women raised as women", to exclude anyone [[AMAB|assigned male at birth]].
=== Prejudice Against
TERFs believe that all men are inherently oppressive and cannot change this due to the way they enforce the patriarchy. Trans women, and anyone assigned male at birth are included in this outdated definition of "men
=== Views on Transmasculine People ===
As with many conversations on trans people, [[transmasculine]] people, such as
=== Biphobia ===
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TERF ideology often includes being against kinky sex, believing that dom/sub interactions, even between two women, mirror the oppressive relationship between men and women. Therefore TERF ideology asserted that the only "pure" form of sex is vanilla sex between two (strictly lesbian) cis women.
Many TERFs are also sex-worker exclusionary radical feminists
=== Dislike of the Word TERF ===
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== Flag ==
The TERF
==References==
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