This thread has interesting timing. Until I was felled earlier this week with Covid (I'd successfully avoided it until now), I was going to join the counter protest yesterday of Posie Parker's 'Let Women Speak' rally at Parliament House. It's an anti-trans sideshow where she tries to shut down women who don't agree with her anti-trans views. She's anti-abortion, gets support from the extreme RW, and seems obsessed with importing the US culture war anti-trans ugliness to places like the UK, Australia and NZ.
While most of the Posie Parker mob seem to be of a RW leaning or misoogynists (one man told me to shut up and stop silencing women lol), I did encounter one who told me she was 70 and had a strong history when she was younger of supporting all those things you mention and that she was very LW. When I asked her why with her views she'd be supporting a creature like Posie Parker, she vanished and I never got an answer. While I don't see anything radical about those feminist views, I would call her a TERF because she's wanting to exclude trans women from being thought of or identified as women.
I'll use old DUers as examaples. Remember Iverglas? She was my friend for a long while and she was a first wave feminist. Her abhorrent views on trans women were on full display here for a while before she was banned. She was a TERF. Remember Seabeyond? She was also a first wave feminist, but she was inclusive of trans women in her feminism. She definitely wasn't a TERF. Like I said, many I saw weren't feminists at all, but I think the term may have come into being from feminist discussions on gender and trans women so that's why Feminist is in the acronym. TERFs hate the label and insist they should be labelled as 'gender critical'.
Me, I don't call them TERFs. I call them bigoted fascist creatures, though with the character limit on Twitter I had to shorten it to 'fascist c**ts' 
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