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Not to diminish the message, but I always heard TERF as trans exclusionist radical feminist.
Originally it was coined as such, though as they are not feminists, it's a bit misleading. Also all TERFS align themselves sooner or later with facists, so I personally approve of the new term. Exclusion is also really weak in terms of what the end goal of TERFs are, which is the eradication of trans people.
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Fairrrrrr, hope I didn't come across as lecturing -.- If I just like these words much better for the acronym and wanted to explain my reasoning. U can use it however u want of course :)
No harm here, and yeah maybe that was a little extra on my part.
This is a much better version of the acronym. TERFs are not feminists, they're reactionaries.
I believe this comic is deliberately updating the label