I am writing in support of the proposed change to the Library of Congress' terminology to stop using the controversial, provocative and largely inaccurate acronym "TERF" (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist). It is important for resources like the Library of Congress to use the most descriptive terms to help people find materials, rather than eschew neutrality by assigning labels based on critics' viewpoints, telling people what to believe about the materials before they even read them. This is a subject with a great deal more depth and breadth than the use of such an incendiary word implies. I appreciate that this change has been proposed and hope it will be appropriately considered.
Done. Though I am sort of fond of TERF, many of us reclaiming it, others often mean it to be a disrespectful slur. And shame on the Library of Congress for actually using TERF. Shows their capture. In reconsidering its use this hopefully indicates a turning of the misogynist tide.
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I am writing in support of the proposed change to the Library of Congress' terminology to stop using the controversial, provocative and largely inaccurate acronym "TERF" (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist). It is important for resources like the Library of Congress to use the most descriptive terms to help people find materials, rather than eschew neutrality by assigning labels based on critics' viewpoints, telling people what to believe about the materials before they even read them. This is a subject with a great deal more depth and breadth than the use of such an incendiary word implies. I appreciate that this change has been proposed and hope it will be appropriately considered.
Done. Though I am sort of fond of TERF, many of us reclaiming it, others often mean it to be a disrespectful slur. And shame on the Library of Congress for actually using TERF. Shows their capture. In reconsidering its use this hopefully indicates a turning of the misogynist tide.
It should be called "sex realist," not gender critical. Let's turn the tables on those who think they are in charge of the narrative.
Instead of any ref to trans let's say women's rights advocates or sex realists. TERF is outdated.
TERF stands for trans-exclusionary radical feminist, not feminism. So shouldn’t the replacement be gender-critical feminist?