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2024-06-23 06:47:47 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: CBE0F97E3F2AA9A72BFBB8C296CBD6292C6EE57C36C2616588D86F186A32FAFD
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Viv Smythe has been credited with creating and popularising the term in 2008 as an online shorthand. Smythe coined the term in a blog post, to refer to a particular type of feminist whom she characterised as "unwilling to recognise trans women as sisters". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERF_(acronym)#Origin https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/29/im-credited-with-having-coined-the-acronym-terf-heres-how-it-happened https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/who-was-the-original-terf/
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