In the first week of June 2020, J.K. Rowling received enormous backlash (and not for the first time) because she tweeted anti-trans statements which have prompted people to label her a TERF. “If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction. If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn’t hate to speak the truth.” What is a TERF? It is an acronym that stands for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist. To put it in simplest terms TERFs believe that transgender women are men, not women, and that by pretending to be women they contribute to “female erasure.” TERFs use two basic arguments to argue that trans women pose a threat to cis women. Their first argument is that trans women are biologically male so they pose a threat to privacy and safety in women’s spaces. They believe that through infiltration of women...