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Adults who impersonate the opposite sex have created the derogatory acronym “TERF,” which stands for “trans-exclusionary radical feminists,” to insult and marginalize those feminists who don’t want men in women’s private spaces. "Gender critical" feminists, many of whom are lesbians, have been at the forefront of a growing schism in the LGB/T alliance, a schism of which many remain unaware.