gender-critical feminist

gender-critical feminist (plural gender-critical feminists)

1. An adherent or proponent of gender-critical feminism.

   Synonym: GCF

   • 2017 September 24, Cathy Young, “Why you shouldn’t punch a Nazi”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 292, number 86, page K5, column 1:

     The disturbing incident, also caught on video, took place in London’s Hyde Park as a few dozen women waited to find out the location of a controversial debate between transgender activists and “gender-critical feminists” who believe biological sex determines who is a woman.

   • 2020 June 10, Barbara Kay, “Professor holds the line on free expression: U of A decision offends those on left and right”, in National Post, volume 22, number 191, page A8, column 1:

     Where the traditional rights of biological women collide with asserted rights of trans women — sport, intimate spaces, rape crisis centres, prisons — gender-critical feminists join with conservatives like me in insisting that biological women’s rights must prevail: for the sake of their safety, privacy and right to a level playing field.

   • 2023, Holly Lawford-Smith, Sex Matters: Essays in Gender-Critical Philosophy, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 211:

     Gender-critical feminists are loud about these issues, and they are unique in including leftists that oppose these laws—often the only leftists who do.