# gender-critical
## English
### Alternative forms

* gender critical

### Adjective

gender-critical (comparative more gender-critical, superlative most gender-critical)
* Critically examining the role of gender in a text, a person’s experiences, etc.
** 1995, Terry Evans, “Under Cover of Night: (Re)Gendering Mathematics and Science Education”, in Lesley H. Parker, Léonie J. Rennie, Barry J. Fraser, editors, Gender, Science and Mathematics: Shortening the Shadow‎, Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 71:[…] 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 women need, separately and collectively, to reach a gender-critical understanding and make the changes to their lives accordingly.
** 2004, Randi R. Warne, “New Approaches to the Study of Religion in North America”, in Peter Antes, Armin W. Geertz, Randi R. Warne, editors, New Approaches to the Study of Religion, volume 1, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 28:A decade or more later, it is instructive to consider the status of both feminist and gender-critical approaches to the study of religion. As I have argued elsewhere, despite the ubiquity of gendering as a cultural practice, its significance within religion systems, and its foundational role in shaping human possibility and opportunity, gender has not been widely adopted as an essential analytical category by scholars of religion.
** 2014, Julia M. O'Brien, “Preface”, in Julia M. O'Brien, editor, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page xiii:Gender-critical exploration of biblical literature remains a relatively new enterprise. Building on and encompassing the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century feminist scholarship and more recent queer studies, biblically focused gender studies seeks to advance the scholarly conversation by systematically exploring the ways in which gender is constructed in the diverse texts, cultures, and readers that constitute “the world of the Bible.”
* (originally UK, neologism) Espousing, characteristic of, or relating to gender-critical feminism.
    Synonym: GC
** 2013 August 2, Elizabeth Hungerford, “Sex Is Not Gender”, in CounterPunch‎, retrieved December 6, 2022:As a gender critical feminist and an attorney, I have been analyzing the legal and medical conflation of gender with sex for years.
** 2014 August 6, Juliet Jacques, “On the ‘Dispute’ Between Radical Feminism and Trans People”, in New Statesmen‎, London, retrieved December 6, 2022: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.
** 2016 June 29, Polly Anna Rocha, “Pride & Prejudice”, in San Antonio Current‎, San Antonio, Texas: Euclid Media Group, retrieved December 6, 2022, page 32:This sort of mistreatment reflects the ideologies of trans-exclusionary radical feminism, popular amongst certain gender-critical lesbian groups.
** 2018 October 30, Anna Fazackerley, “UK Universities Struggle to Deal with ‘Toxic’ Trans Rights Row”, in The Guardian‎, London, retrieved December 6, 2022:Selina Todd, professor of modern history at Oxford University, agrees. Recently one delegate cancelled their place at a humanities conference she was due to speak at when they saw her name on the agenda. “It was because the person was concerned that ‘transphobic’ views would be expressed. I assume that this referred to my gender-critical stance.”
** 2020 January 3, Damien Gayle, “After Tribunal’s Ethical Veganism Ruling, What Is a Protected Belief?”, in The Guardian‎, London, retrieved December 6, 2022: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.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:gender-critical.

#### Derived terms

* GCRN

### See also

* GCF
* TERF