astroTERFing

The use – by men – of fake social media accounts that pose as feminist women, to object to the rights of trans women to be recognized as women. See also: Astroturfing, TERF.

Most of the people defending this anti-trans bigot are puppet accounts with stock photos of women for avatars. Literal fake women supporting transphobia: typical astroTERFing!

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Astroterf

The combination of astroturf and TERF. The spamming of feminism-themed transphobic opinions in media at a scale disproportional to actual opinion.

With recent polls suggesting that more women are accepting of trans women than not, what we see on Twitter every day may as well be astroterf.

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