Writing for Socialist Worker, American feminists Danelle Wylder and Corrie Westing stated that this position is 'divisive and contradictory', and that it represented ' transmisogynist ideology'.
In a 2015 article, American feminist scholar Bonnie J. Morris argued that TERF was initially a legitimate analytical term, but quickly developed into a defamatory word associated with sexist insults. She described the word as 'emblematic of the unresolved tensions between our LGBT community's L and T factions' and called on scholars and journalists to stop using it. īritish journalist Catherine Bennett has described the word as 'a bullying tool', which had 'already succeeded in repressing speech – and maybe even research'. In 2017, British feminist author Claire Heuchan argued that the word was often used alongside 'violent rhetoric', and that this violent language was used to 'dehumanise women who are critical of gender as part of a political system', often lesbians.
