The etymology of TERF was coined by...TERFs, who identified themselves as T-RANSGENDER E-XCLUSIONARY R-ADICAL F-EMINISTS That was the name they gave themselves. They've tried rebranding multiple times purely to sell their hate of trans women.https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1269401983095648259 …
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Replying to @MelanieMoore
Just to be clear. Someone else coined it. They just took to it like ducks to water. "Heck yeah, that's exactly who I am" they said.
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Replying to @pluckylump @MelanieMoore
For the inevitable claims by liar terfs who want to claim it's a slur and they didn't coin it. They didn't, but they loved it and wore it as a badge of pride.
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Replying to @pluckylump @MelanieMoore
People on Tumblr at the time pushed it as a "neutral" alternative to the actual slur "radscum" (which was a play on the abbreviation "radfem")
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Which is where the term "truscum" for gatekeeping trans people came from
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