You might be a TERF if…
I’ve noticed that there seems to be some confusion about what a TERF is so, here’s a quick guide to help you figure out if you’re a TERF. Chances are that you’re a TERF if you believe that you’re a feminist when you… 1.) Claim that transwomen are cismen, that transmen are ciswomen* and purposefully misgender transpeople. 2.) Out transpeople to employers. 3.) Tell trans women their surgery is about supporting rape culture*. 4.) Assert* that lesbian-identified transwomen can’t be lesbian. 5.) Claim that a world without trans people is preferable.1 6.) Find that your anti-trans arguments and the anti-trans arguments of far rightwing groups match.2 7.) Assert cisprivilege isn’t real; that non-trans people aren’t privileged* in a society that’s hostile to trans people. 8.) Claim that gender isn’t real, but the MAAB/FAAB binary is. 9.) Claim that trans surgeries were pioneered by men in service of the patriarchy.3 10.)
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“You might be a TERF if…” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to feminism and gender politics, while also engaging transgender identity and history. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
Historical significance
As a publication record from 2013 at The TERFs, “You might be a TERF if…” provides dated evidence of how feminism and gender politics was being argued in relation to transgender identity and history. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
Policy significance
The article’s strongest policy connection is public accommodations and facilities. It links that institutional frame to feminism and gender politics and transgender identity and history, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
Ranked themes and framings
Rank 1 is the dominant inferred theme or framing. Parent labels identify broader theme families; the relationship key beneath the diagram explains the line styles used for hierarchy, same-family relationships, overlap, and separate-but-related themes.
Themes
- 1Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict100%
- 2Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community57%
- 3Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life24%
- 4Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life18%
- 5Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community12%
- 6Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community8%
Academic framing
- 1100%
- 240%
- 330%
Policy framing
- 1100%
Editorial function
Source topics
- Separate but related themes
These classifications are inferred from article text and source metadata and remain directly editable. Relationship labels express corpus-analysis judgments, not immutable facts.
How “Feminism and gender politics” appears across the Collective corpus
This article was published during the theme’s highest-presence year in the registered corpus (2013).
Relative presence by year
Peak year indexed to 100Presence by member publication
Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Transgender identity and history198
- Community and organizing165
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization117
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse80
- Law and civil rights74
- Culture, identity, and representation73
- Education and youth58
- Healthcare and medicine55
- History, archives, and memory44
- Science, evidence, and expertise37
Academic framings in this topic
Values measure relative presence in the registered Collective corpus, not public search interest or public opinion.
Documented circulation and reception
No broad reception evidence has been documented yet; this may reflect unconfigured or incomplete indexes rather than an absence of circulation. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.
Evidence by channel
Independent counts; bars are not additiveNo channel totals are available yet.
Coverage of the evidence search
Shows what has actually been checkedNo individual references have been stored yet. This can mean that source-held pingbacks have not been imported, provider access is not configured, or available indexes do not expose this work in a machine-readable form.
Counts describe documented circulation and reception in the sources currently available to the Collective. They are not a score of quality, merit, popularity, or social value, and provider totals can overlap.
Author profiles and related researchers
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Cristan Williams
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
Cristan Williams
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
Marian
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
Autumn Sandeen
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
TransAdvocate Staff
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
Marti Abernathey
Shares registered themes including Feminism and gender politics, Community and organizing, Violence, safety, and dehumanization.
Related authors are calculated from co-authorship, shared themes and framings, and citation relationships in the registered corpus. This does not imply a personal or institutional association.
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