gender critical

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1. alternativeAlternative form of gender-critical.

   As a gender-critical feminist, I believe gender is a social construct and, like most scientists and biologists, that sex is binary.

   2019 July 17, Mary Zawacki, “Is There a Future for Girls in Girls’ Sports?”, in The Wall Street Journal

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   Reissued in 1994, the book continues to inspire “gender-critical” or “trans-exclusionary” radical feminists — TERFs, for short.

   2019 April 1, Carol Hay, “Who Counts as a Woman?”, in The New York Times

   If the forty year conflict between gender critical radical feminists and transgender activists is news to you, you are probably not alone. Most of the action has been inside a radical progressive bubble.

   2018 August 12, Peter J Reilly, “Why Gender-Critical Radical Feminists Might Want A Church And Why IRS Approved”, in Forbes

2. alternativeAlternative form of gender-critical: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see gender, critical.

plural gender criticals

1. informalA person who holds gender-critical beliefs.

   Word on the street is gender criticals have started using "male to trans" and "female to trans" to describe trans people...

   2014 October 29, Danny Birb (@transvulcan), Twitter

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   That Sedgwick's case for foundationalist gayness incorporates both the arguments and the premises avowed by Stock and the other gender criticals would likely unnerve everyone except for Reed.

   2023, Grace Lavery, “The Egg and the Essay”, in Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 128

   Synonyms: GC, GCF, gendercrit, gendercritter, TERF, terven