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'''Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists''' ('''TERFs
TERFs often prey on young, uneducated gay people (particularly [[
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>
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=== 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 and men who fetishize womanhood and have "autogynephilia." They also believe that trans men are actually confused
=== Obsession with "Biology" ===
TERFs equate women with their genitals and believe that women are those with "natural-born" vaginas and uteri and, more recently, XX chromosomes. As such TERFs will frequently use symbols of a vagina or uterus to represent women. They also obsess over biological processes such as periods and the ability to give birth. They sometimes refer to [[Cisgender|cis]] women as "womben" (a combination of women and womb).
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 AMAB People ===
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 Trans women, and anyone assigned male at birth are included in this outdated definition of "men." They believe that, because they were born and were raised as men, all AMABs do not understand what it is like to be a woman and do benefit from male privilege. They argue that all AMAB's experience sex-based privilege: that being perceived as a boy for a good chunk of their life means they didn't have to experience misogyny growing up. They also argue that they have the privilege of not experiencing the downsides of having an AFAB body, such as ever having to worry about being denied an abortion.
=== Views on Transmasculine People ===
As with many conversations on trans people, [[transmasculine]] people, such as transgender men and [[AFAB]] [[Non-Binary|nonbinary]] people, are often left out of the conversation. When they are acknowledged, TERFs often brand them as gender non-conforming
It's worth mentioning that FTM TERFs exist, as well as FTMTF de-transitioners. The detransitioners often feel that they were allowed to transition too easily, and that medical professionals didn't bother digging deeply into the origins of their dysphoria and just presented transition as the only solution. Many of them have trauma related to being AFAB and hadn't realized at first that they wanted to transition to escape that. So they see young FTM individuals and mistakenly see themselves in them, and don't want them to make the same mistake they did. Many support transition as a last resort and simply want dysphoric AFAB individuals to look into other options first.
=== Biphobia ===
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Many TERFs are also sex-worker exclusionary radical feminists or SWERFs.
They're also against porn for many reasons, such as normalizing violence against women and the women in the videos being abused on the job. Many TERFs are sex workers or former sex workers who speak out against the industry and talk about the abuse they faced within it.
=== Dislike of the Word TERF ===
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== Flag ==
The TERF "pride flag" is based on a flag for the women's suffrage movement. It is often mistaken as the [[genderqueer]] pride flag due to its similar color scheme.
The radfem-specific flag was designed by Tumblr user goddess-wombynhood on or before July 11, 2020.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20230708185958/https://yourfaveisaradicalfeminist.tumblr.com/post/660434665740632064/alright-so-i-was-inspired-by-the-flag-designed-by Radfem-specific flag reblog (archived)]</ref>
Sometimes, the labrys lesbian flag is used representing radical feminism, but the labrys flag is a lesbian feminism symbol.
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