Good Feminists Don't Exclude Trans Women; How TERFs Hurt All Women

Good Feminists Don't Exclude Trans Women; How TERFs Hurt All Women

According to The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), “Most TERFs came to their ideology via second-wave feminism that radicalized into the lie that trans people are a threat to women.” Although it is framed as a feminist movement to protect women from harm, the extreme exclusion of transgender women from feminist spaces is dangerous and misogynistic. TERFs reinforce the notion that trans women aren’t women at all, and that womanhood is defined b…