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Gia Milinovich vs. transgender people

Gia Milinovich is an American-British television presenter and anti-transgender activist. Milinovich was an advisor for anti-trans group Sex Matters.

Background

Gia Michele Milinovich was born on July 11, 1969 in Minnesota. Milinovich earned a bachelor’s degree from St. John’s University.

Milinovich was presented for several sows, including Demoltion Day (2005–2006), Brainiac: Science Abuse (2006–2007), The Gadget Show (2007–2008), Bang Goes the Theory (2009–2011),

Milinovich married television presenter and physicist Brian Cox in 2006. They have one child (born 2008).

Anti-trans activism

In 2022, Milinovich was named as an advisor to Sex Matters. In a profile on that site, Milinovich stated:

“Having grown up as a tomboy and spent her teens immersed in 1980s queer culture, by her early twenties she believed that feminism was over. Women had achieved liberation. Then she had her first child and the scales fell from her eyes. She saw what our society really thought of women. She made a conscious choice to support women and will not be swayed from that. Biological sex is why complex life exists at all. It is not ‘a social construction’. It is a reality that exists independently of our cultural interpretations of what it is and what it means.”

In 2024, Milinovich stated

I first started seeing what is now called ‘transactivism’ in 2011, when a friend of mine was attacked by people on Twitter for using a word they objected to, which was a word in very common usage in gay/lesbian and alternative spaces for at least the previous 25 years. This friend is left-wing, very liberal, publicly pro-gay-rights. I found it very strange that anyone was calling him bigoted.

In 2012, another friend of mine was attacked on Twitter for similar reasons. Again, this friend is left-wing, very liberal, and publicly pro-gay-rights. I was very confused. I couldn’t understand why this person was being equated with some kind of anti-gay religious fundamentalist when he is entirely the opposite to that.

In January 2013, Suzanne Moore was attacked for something she wrote in an article. Again, Suzanne is left-wing, very liberal, and pro-gay-rights. When I see something three times, I know I need to pay attention. This is when I decided to dig into what was going on.

[…]

I was there in the discussion in around 2014 when the term ‘gender critical’ came up as a suggestion for what to call ourselves. It was useful to have a term that was separate to ‘feminist’ for various reasons – one, a man could potentially be gender critical, but I don’t think a man can be anything more than a feminist ally; two, there were a lot of people saying a lot of crazy things were ‘feminist’ at the time (e.g. wearing stripper heels was ‘feminist’ because something-something-blahblahblah) and it was useful to have a term that said exactly what we stood for.

I’m left-wing, very liberal, I don’t think it matters what someone wears or how someone behaves, whether they are male, female, gay, straight, whatever. At best, gender is restrictive. At worst, gender is deadly.

In 2024, the term ‘gender critical’ is not something I’d call myself simply because it’s been commandeered by people who are not at all gender critical but seem to be gender traditionalists. They seem to think that men must behave like men (whatever that means) and that anything that deviates from some kind of 1950s-via-a-21st-century-lens is morally impure.

It isn’t my kind of scene.

Podcast

In 2024 Milinovich launched The Cluster F Theory Podcast. Anti-trans guests inlcude Sarah Ditum, Caroline Criado Perez, and Victoria Smith.

Selected writing by Milinovich

Ditum, Sarah; Hewitt, Rachel; Jones, Diane; Milinovich, Gia; Ryan, Hannah; Smith, Karen Ingala, Strinkovsky, Marina; Smith, Victoria, and Tunks, Kiri (Autumn/Winter 2024). An Oral History of the Gender War. The Radical Notion, Issue 12 https://theradicalnotion.org/an-oral-history-of-the-gender-war/

Resources

Sex Matters (sex-matters.org)

  • Advisor: Gia Milinovich
  • sex-matters.org/about-us/advisory-group/gia-milinovich [archive]

Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

X/Twitter (x.com)

Gia Milinovich (giagia.co.uk)

IMDb (imdb.com)

Bluesky (bsky.app)

Substack (https://giagia.substack.com/)

Instagram (instagram.com)