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[–]Killer_Danish 40 insightful - 3 fun40 insightful - 2 fun41 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Sent them this:

TERF is not "a deliberately technically neutral description" as you claim. It is a slur used to shut up women who are critical of the trans-dogma: medicalizing young children, allowing intact males to compete in women's sports, allowing males to compete for women-only scholarships, etc...

"Woman" is a biological reality. Sex cannot be changed, because it defines us down to our very chromosomes (XX).

By the way, feminists critical of gender ideology don't exclude transmen. Your definition is not only a slur — it's wrong.

[–]PlayCardsNotPeople 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Have they already changed it?
Now it says:

TERF noun Disparaging
trans-exclusionary radical feminist: an advocate of radical feminism who believes that a trans woman’s gender identity is not legitimate and who is hostile to the inclusion of trans people and gender-diverse people in the feminist movement.

Or where did you see that "a deliberately technically neutral description"?

[–]Killer_Danish 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's a footnote towards the bottom. It fully reads:

ORIGIN OF TERF Coined in 2008 by Viv Smythe, Australian feminist, writer, and blogger, as “a deliberately technically neutral description”