Meanings
- uncountableThe state or quality of holding trans-exclusionary feminist views.
We're doing the usual road from "just asking questions" to "trans are being mean to me" to full-blown terfery and at this point can we just skip to the end?
2021 October 23, Ana Mardoll (@AnaMardoll), Twitter2 more examples
can't stop thinking about all these British ladies that apparently need the smelling salts because a judge ruled that TERFery isn't an equality act PROTECTED CHARACTERISTIC akin to disability, race, sex, religion or sexual orientation
2019 December 19, Christa Peterson (@christapeterso), TwitterBut accusations of TERFery have been sufficient to intimidate many people, institutions and organisations I once admired, who’re cowering before the tactics of the playground.
2020 June 10, J. K. Rowling, J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender IssuesSynonyms: TERFdom
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nounThe state or quality of holding trans-exclusionary feminist views.
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TERFery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/TERFery
“TERFery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/TERFery. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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