TERFS of the Northeast

[MissingTheVillage]

... please tell me I'm not the only one.

Have become more feminist, making sense of life experiences over last few years.

Looked for feminist group locally/online. Or women's groups.

Everything's taken over by trans...

McTERF here. NW Scotland.

Tyneside TERF here (waves)

NE Scotland here.

Twogoats Bulls eye! Newcastle here too.

So... do you all have people you can talk to who understand where you're coming from re. feminism? In general, I mean, not specifically trans stuff...
I used to be quite political but all the lefty men put me off.

Yorkshire TERF.
Yorkshire is a bit big though.

TERF in the South. But I'm pretty sure none of us are actually TERFs as we would accept transmen as women.

Hi pencil and pat

venus I know, but I'm so fucking over it, I don't care what it's supposed to mean. It's a slur and a misnomer but it no longer bothers me.

Me neither, I really couldn't care less. People who call you a TERF don't want to engage, they just want to lob it and run. Unless you challenge what it means, and then they will tell you at length how privileged you are and how you don't have the right to reject it. Best response is "Meh".

Lincolnshire Terf

TERFy MacTerf here- (west coast best Coast) Scotland too!

Yo Datun

The use of TERF now reminds me of the quote, "I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat." (Rebecca West)

If you aren't a Gender Feelz Rool Doormat, then you are a TERF, apparently.

I'm exiled from the north in the south.
But my advice would be to attend some of the feminist events coming up for IWD, get inspired. Talk to people in real life, especially older women. You will almost certainly find other women who think like you. I expect the majority do. But for obvious reasons, most terfy sorts don't do it publicly on social media.
Middlesbrough Central Library 8 March
lovemiddlesbrough.com/whats-on/event/6819/rebels-in-the-archives-live-streaming
Teesside Uni 4 March
www.tees.ac.uk/sections/whats_on/events_details.cfm?event_id=8843

waves at Kanye from somewhere else in Dublin

What's TERF in Welsh? I'm that

ffeministaidd radical gwaharddol drawsrywiol

Courtesy of google translate

In fact, I'm gonna stick that on my twitter!!

I'm from North East. :) I'm near bishop Auckland now but originally from Sedgfield area. Everyone here says I have a proper Geordie accent and often think I'm from Newcastle.

I have a friend who I can speak to about feminism in general as well as the trans stuff too, as I've got older I've started speaking up more when people in group conversations say something offensively sexist, so instead of nodding to be polite and keeping trap shut, I've started saying "I don't agree because ......" and then I get eye rolls.

I'm a Kent TERF.

I've learned so much from these threads recently, and they've helped me to clarify some stuff that I was seeing on social media (Twitter mainly) that I felt uncomfortable about but I sort-of assumed that I just didn't really understand it properly.

I realise now that I understood it perfectly well, I just didn't agree with it.

Another NW here. There seem to be a few of us!

Another North West Terf :)

I'm in Newcastle. Happy to connect on fb if anyone would like, but for certain reasons I can't be openly TERFy on there really. It's boiling my fucking piss though. Happy (more than happy!) to set the world to rights over messenger / a cup of tea.

Another Kentish TERF!

Another Kent TERF!