Gender-critical

Quick meaning: Gender-critical is an adjective meaning Critically examining the role of gender in a text, a person’s experiences, etc.

Meaning

Critically examining the role of gender in a text, a person’s experiences, etc.

More Meanings

1. (originally UK, neologism) Espousing, characteristic of, or relating to gender-critical feminism.

Example Sentences

As a gender critical feminist and an attorney, I have been analyzing the legal and medical conflation of gender with sex for years.

This sort of mistreatment reflects the ideologies of trans-exclusionary radical feminism, popular amongst certain gender-critical lesbian groups.

Maya Forstater, a former researcher and writer for a thinktank, is likely to appeal against a ruling that her gender-critical feminist beliefs could not be protected, Chilton suggested.

I don’t believe that all, or even most, ‘gender-critical’ editorials genuinely set out to make our lives harder: more that their writers don’t realise the impact they can have in the structure outlined above.

Synonyms for gender-critical

Depending on context, synonyms include GC.

Antonyms for gender-critical

Common opposites include gender-expansive.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include masculocentric, antidiscursive, counterdiscursive, criticist, poststructural, cisheteronormative.

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