... feminism and lesbianism in service of their own fascist aims, to the detriment of those who are most minoritized within and representative of our communities.” In France trans-exclusionary radical feminists' (TERFs) rhetoric of sexual difference sometimes overlaps with that of the Catholic Right...

... that are simultaneously deploying transphobia, and transmisogyny in particular, as part of a call to return to a melancholically mourned “authentic womanhood” that has allegedly been lost. The trans-exclusionary feminist (TERF) movement (Pearce, Erikainen, and Vincent 2020 ; Hines 2020 ) and the so-called anti-gender...

... . www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/the-march-of-transgender-rights/article19888036/ . Williams Cristan . 2014a . “ TERF: What It Means and Where It Came From .” TransAdvocate , March 15 . www.transadvocate.com/terf-what-it-means-and-where-it-came-from_n_13066.htm . Williams Cristan . 2014b...

...Jordan J. Tudisco Abstract Faced with the proliferation of TERF rhetoric outside academia, this article proposes a case study of an anti-trans, anti-gender, anti–sex work graduate student at a progressive American institution to challenge feminism to address the ways in which it is providing...

... , February 7 . https://nytimes.com/2019/02/07/opinion/terf-trans-women-britain.html . Majewska Ewa . 2021 . Feminist Antifascism: Counterpublics of the Common . London : Verso . Nadkarni Asha . 2014 . Eugenic Feminism: Reproductive Nationalism in the United States and India...

... party as innately harmful and therefore requiring elimination; hence the hallmark predation TERF abjection of trans women as rapists of cis women and the Zionist abjection of Palestinians as “savage” and/or “terrorist.” These connections can be obscured by the siloization of social justice movement work...

... of belief destroying sexual dimorphism and women's protection in the name of trans* rights (Wang 2019a ). This perhaps initially surprising cooperation between TERFs—trans-exclusionary radical feminists—and right-wing conservatives as well as alt-right nationalists is no isolated phenomenon (Tudor 2021...

... that human beings embrace religions because they cannot think without direction. TERF voices echo this explanation as they seek to right what they determine are wrong figurations of gender. The freethinker's ritual presentation requires standing at a pulpit determined by their claimed associations...

... lesbians” (182). This statement communicates that Stein does not understand trans men as “real” men. There are obviously very real differences between men and lesbian women. Stein mentions trans exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) once in the text, but she explains that their position results from...

... 2020 ). 2 In this atmosphere—the pandemic, on the one hand, and the increase in the official writing of transphobia into state and public policy, on the other—we see a consolidation of trans*-exclusive feminist, or TERF, discourse expressing themselves through the tropology of viral and toxic...

... and a blog in Brazilian Portuguese. There were no trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) in the Brazilian context at that time—at least no feminists whose activism was specifically oriented toward harming trans* people (especially trans* women). Within three years, a Brazilian transfeminist community...

... ; Stanley 2011 ; Salamon 2018 ) have written extensively about the ideological and political underpinnings of transphobia and anti-transgender violence. The monograph TERF Wars: Feminism and the Fight for Transgender Futures (Pearce, Erikainen, and Vincent 2020 ) focuses specifically on the recent...

... for being a TERF (not true). 1 They are odd not simply for their intensity, but in that the butch should be the central character of her one-act play called Females ! Why? Because, here's a thought, if we are all females and we all hate it, then, we are all stone butches. Stone butches like Butler, like...

.... It is difficult, then, to grasp Rustin's fidelity to “limits” as anything other than mandated reproduction. The sadistic imposition of this mandate by trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) marks a late stage in the British colonial and imperial enterprise. In an empire not dying but zombified, as Sophie...

... of Ciara Cremin's book reviewed here is one likely to attract similar bellicose attention in right-wing circles. What may be harder to imagine is that the book may also attract the ire of some who style themselves as leftist, “gender critical feminists,” or more accurately: TERFs. TERFs in England where I...

... elements of Rowling's essay published on June 10, 2020, originally titled “TERF Wars,” which prompted an online backlash and a subsequent cycle of negative legacy media coverage against trans people. The article deconstructs two opinion pieces in the Scotsman and the National that depict Rowling...

... working together in the struggle toward the shared horizon of abolition. 1. For some additional context on the relationship between anti-gender ideology, TERF rhetoric, and the state (in Europe, in these cases), see, for example, Gennero 2017 ; Keil 2020 ; Korolczuk 2020 ; and Peto 2016...

.... Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 eugenics colonialism empire trans-exclusionary radical feminism (TERF) trans “Sex is real,” tweeted J. K. Rowling in her defense of transphobia at the end of 2019 . This high-profile outburst bubbled out of the bigotry actually informed...

... to be as rare as they were inadvisable. Attesting to anything less than the total efficacy of GCS risked providing trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) and right-wing bigots fresh ammunition for attacking trans medical care. Chu's essay holds out the hope that, decades now into the transgender rights...

..., or TERFs, a moniker such feminists resist, insisting they are not anti-trans people per se but rather critical of claims that transgender women are women and that inclusion in women's spaces is therefore a human right. Hateful rhetoric that characterizes transgender women as “male” interlopers in women's...