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{{PageSeo | description = TERF is a slur used by transgender activists to debase anyone who criticizes their movement on the basis of feminist concerns. | {{PageSeo | ||
|description = TERF is a slur used by transgender activists to debase anyone who criticizes their movement on the basis of feminist concerns. | |||
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[[File:Terf-slur-02.png|thumb|300px|A typical tweet containing "terf"]] | [[File:Terf-slur-02.png|thumb|300px|A typical tweet containing "terf"]] | ||
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* Exclude trans people from housing (make them homeless) | * Exclude trans people from housing (make them homeless) | ||
* Exclude trans people from employment (make them unemployed) | * Exclude trans people from employment (make them unemployed) | ||
* Exclude them from education | * Exclude them from education (keep them uneducated) | ||
* Exclude them from | * Exclude them from accommodation equality | ||
* Exclude them from local, state, national and United Nations protections(!) | * Exclude them from local, state, national and United Nations protections(!) | ||
As such, the women labeled "TERF" are represented less as women who simply want to uphold women's sex-based rights, and more like fascist monsters | As such, the women labeled "TERF" are represented less as women who simply want to uphold women's sex-based rights, and more like fascist monsters. This is then used to incite hatred and violence against them. It's also noteworthy how exclusion of transwomen (from female-only spaces etc.) turns here into supposed exclusion of all trans people (from whatever). In fact, women targeted as "TERFs" will frequently say explicitly that they welcome transmen in their groups, since transmen also face the sex-based oppression all women face from birth. | ||
The strategy of transgender activists of using simple definitions of "TERF" to make the term look accurate, but then twist the definition to justify hatred, is quite similar to a "troll" strategy that has been noted by philosopher Nicholas Shackel, and dubbed the ''Motte and Bailey Doctrine'' in a paper titled [https://philpapers.org/archive/SHATVO-2.pdf ''The Vacuity of Postmodernist Methodology'']: | The strategy of transgender activists of using simple definitions of "TERF" to make the term look accurate, but then twist the definition to justify hatred, is quite similar to a "troll" strategy that has been noted by philosopher Nicholas Shackel, and dubbed the ''Motte and Bailey Doctrine'' in a paper titled [https://philpapers.org/archive/SHATVO-2.pdf ''The Vacuity of Postmodernist Methodology'']: | ||