DC Comics has just added TERF to its lexicon in the latest issue of Green Lantern.
The word – an acronym for trans-exclusionary radical feminist – is used to describe people who identify as feminist but who opposed including trans women in spaces reserved for women. Writer Viv Smythe has been credited with coining the term in 2008 after she wrote a short series of blog posts that used the acronym.
Now, DC Comics featured the term TERF in the last issue written by an LGBT+ author. This is the first use of the word in DC Comics history, as reported by
Bleeding Cool, which asserts that “some consider it a slur”.
A protest sign advocating for intersectional feminism that includes trans people (Charles Hutchins via Creative Commons)
In recent years, a new term has entered the world of everyday speech: TERF. The initialism stands for “trans-exclusionary radical feminist” and refers to people who describe themselves as feminists but who exclude the rights of transgender people, particularly trans women, from their women’s rights advocacy.
These views can manifest in many ways, for example stating that trans women are not women, pushing for the exclusion of trans women from women’s spaces, and also opposition to trans rights legislation such as the US Equality Act or the UK Gender Recognition Act.
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