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One of the main reasons your point doesn't hold water imo is any quick scan of social media shows that TERF is thrown about as an insult. Fascist is probably used more frequently as hyperbole than as a genuine description. It seems disingenuous to try and claim neither aren't used to suppress debate (although that doesn't negate the possibility that sometimes there is value to shutting down debate).
If you took a sample of 1,000 Corbyn supporters and called them all anti-Semitic racists, I'm going to go out on a limb and say an incredibly high percentage would find that offensive, regardless of their feelings towards Jewish people.
@Ed.It-Profile - one thing I think you have missed or possibly not given enough weight to is that trans people have a unique experience in that debating their rights usually includes a debate about the reality of their very existence.
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People who take offence to the terms like terf or racist, fascist, misogynist etc usually are yes. I'm not saying that if someone calls you a terf and you disagree you are one. But if you have issues with the term itself, then yes it's definitely a red flag.