gender-critical

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gender-critical

adjective more gender-critical · most gender-critical · gender critical

  1. Critically examining the role of gender in a text, a person’s experiences, etc. […] in order to understand the nature of gender in society and the domination of men in most forms of social life, one needs to take a gender-critical perspective of both men and women and the interrelations between them (Evans, 1988); and, in order to bring about any enduring gender equity, men and
  2. neologism Espousing, characteristic of, or relating to gender-critical feminism. As a gender critical feminist and an attorney, I have been analyzing the legal and medical conflation of gender with sex for years.

    Similar: GC · Opposite: gender-expansive

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@misc{gender_critical_2026,
  title = {gender-critical},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gender-critical},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}