English edit

Etymology edit

TERF +‎ -speak

Noun edit

TERFspeak (uncountable)

  1. The jargon and rhetoric of gender-critical or trans-exclusionary feminists.
    • 2018 March 13, venyle (@cold_inthewater), Twitter[1]:
      Truth be told parroting actual TERFspeak for it's[sic] comedy value might have been a bad call.
    • 2019 December 17, fern +r | Badenlily (@fernseasons), Twitter[2]:
      "Trans-identified male" is TERFspeak for trans woman.
    • 2022 March 3, Bette Joy (@SlaggitySlag), Twitter[3]:
      “Respecting other people’s boundaries” is just TERFspeak for “trans women are not welcome to use public spaces”.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:TERFspeak.