Twitch decides to call women, ''womxn''.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

And that, kids, is why we don't like TERFs.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I also didn't really know about the Terf aspect of womyn either. I just thought it was just a weird way of hardcore feminists not liking the word male in female honestly

Essentially what happened, because second wave, there was a general dissection of the terms "female" and "woman" and an unhappiness with the idea that women were, linguistically, subordinated to/variations of men. But over the course of a few years the academic discussion of the matter was put into practice, and those who did so were almost entirely separatist types who believed gender equality was only achievable by living outside patriarchal systems and away from men... which were the original TERFs.

And then of course some late-comer catholic 'feminists' got tangled up in it and wrote The Transsexual Empire and that's the founding text of the modern TERF.

Interesting. For me Terf I only became aware of them when one of the my neighbors that at the time hanged out with me heavily identified as a feminist. OK. Whatever. I hear that term and then I tread lightly until I figure out what type they are.

Turns out she has a burning hatred of the trans community. In her own words 'it tears down everything what feminism is about'. In her view, if you can have a woman turn into a man that reinforces the patriarchy. Her ideas were basically what you would expect from a conservative. Males are males and females are females. That's it.

But then again the same woman also said that women are incapable of physical assault on men because men can get out of it easily enough. Literally that is what she said.

I do wonder about the mindset of terfs though.

Identity politics often imo has a lot of overlap in principle with common conservative leanings. It makes the whole ordeal in terms of what you're talking about a touch intersectional.