TERF Islandとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

TERF Island

1. (slang, derogatory) Great Britain or the United Kingdom, viewed as a centre of gender-critical feminism, or more broadly of transphobic policies and attitudes.
   • 2021 February 26, Maya Forstater (@MForstater), Twitter‎:

     NY Times does another article about the terrible women of TERF Island...but without talking to any of them of course.

   • 2021 December 13, Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu), Twitter‎:

     Do I want to know why the Queen of TERF island is trending?
     I do not.

   • 2022 May 3, James Stephanie Sterling (@JimSterling), Twitter‎:

     When I came back to the UK this year people said, “are you sure you want to leave the US? It’s really bad in the UK right now.”
     Yeeeeah I’m gonna take my chances on Terf Island.
     That should say a lot about how terrifying the US has become.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:TERF Island.