The “gender critical” movement is a politically diverse alliance of people critical of gender identity and expression as it pertains to the transgender community.
Note: this is under development.
- trans-exclusionary feminism
- trans-exclusionary sexual minorities
- ethical objections
- moral or spiritual objections
- political and legal objections
- objections based on academic training
- sex segregationists
- sports
- incarceration
- public accommodations
- reproductive rights
- age of consent
- aesthetic objections
- theoretical objections
- appropriation objections
- racial and ethnic objections
- linguistic objections
- free speech objections
- criminological objections
- regret objections
- cisgender supremacists
- the “super straight” movement
Gender critical resources
Books
- The Transsexual Empire by Janice Raymond
- Gender Hurts by Sheila Jeffreys Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective by Sheila Jeffreys
- Galileo’s Middle Finger by Alice Dreger
- The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society Debra Soh
- Transgender Body Politics by Heather Brunskell-Evans
- Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your Own Body by Heather Brunskell-Evans
- Inventing Transgender Children and Young People by Heather Brunskell-Evans
- The Man Who Would Be Queen by J. Michael Bailey
- Sex Scandal: The Drive to Abolish Male and Female Ashley McGuire
- Female Erasure: What You Need To Know About Gender Politics’ War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights by Ruth Barrett
- Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism by Mary Daly
- Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine
- Blood and Visions: Womyn Reconciling with Being Female by Autotomous Womyn’s Press
- Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier
- When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment by Ryan T. Anderson
- The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men by Robert Jensen
- Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism by Kathleen Stock
- Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality by Helen Joyce
- The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
- Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose
- My Sister, Daisy by Adria Karlsson
- Men Trapped in Men’s Bodies: Narratives of Autogynephilic Transsexualism by Anne A. Lawrence
- The Corrosive Impact of Transgender Ideology by Joanna Williams
- Re-Sisters: Stories of Desistance from Transgender Identification by Hailey Mangelsdorf
- Desist, Detrans, & Detox: Getting Your Child Out of the Gender Cult by Maria Keffler
Websites
Quillette (quillette.com)
- One of the most consistently gender critical outlets.
Sex and Gender: A Beginner’s Guide (sexandgenderintro.com)
- Rebecca Reilly-Cooper
Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (segm.org)
- Sasha Ayad (counselor)
- Michael Biggs (sociologist)
- Richard Byng (primary care)
- Roberto D’Angelo (psychiatrist)
- Marcus Evans (psychoanalyst)
- John Higgon (clinical psychologist)
- J. Edward Les (pediatrician)
- William Malone (endocrinologist)
- Lisa Marchiano (social worker)
- Julia W. Mason (pediatrician)
- Stella O’Malley (psychotherapist)
- Avi Ring (physiologist)
- Sven Román (psychiatrist)
- Catherine Williamson (occupational therapist)
- Colin Wright (Quillette editor)
LGB Alliance (lgballiance.org.uk)
- Bev Jackson and Kate Harris
- Twitter: @AllianceLGB
4thWaveNow (4thwavenow.com)
- Denise aka Marie
- Twitter: @4th_WaveNow
Genspect (genspect.org)
- Stella O’Malley
- Pamela Buffone
- Kathleen H. Dooley
- Claire Graham
- Julia Mason, MD
- Avi Ring
- Marit Rønstad
- Sasha Ayad
- Roberto D’Angelo
- Stephanie Davies-Arai
- Marcus Evans
- Susan Evans
- Az Hakeem
- Aaron Kimberly
- Stephen Levine
- Lisa Littman
- Lisa Marchiano
- Abigail Shrier
- Sinéad Watson
- Jane Wheeler
Whose Body Is It (whosebodyisit.com)
- Isabella Malbin
- Gender Critical Resource Guide
Gender Identity Watch (genderidentitywatch.com)
- Cathy Brennan
- active 2012-2018
GenderTrender (gendertrender.wordpress.com)
- Gallus Mag / Linda V. Shanko
- Created in December 2010; suspended for policy violations in November 2018
Transgender Trend (transgendertrend.com)
- Useful links
- Twitter: @Transgendertrd
Women’s Human Rights Campaign (womensdeclaration.com)
- Women’s Declaration on Human Rights
Woman’s Place UK
Fair Play for Women
Feminist Salon
Gender Park
Survivors With Biros
It’s About Eve
Women’s Guild NSW
Looking at the big picture
Church of All Worlds
Coalition for a Feminist Agenda
PBB Media
Rethinking Eve LLC
Fight Slavery Now!
Make More Noise!
Margaret Birdseye
Australian Radical Feminists
Birmingham ReSisters
Critical Sisters
Get the L Out
End the War on Women Collective
Leeds Spinners
Lesbian Rights Alliance
Mayday4Women
South London & Kent ReSisters
WOLF (Women’s Liberation Front)
International Women’s Day, Brisbane Meanjin
#OccupiedAustralia
Standing for Women
Erinyes Autonomous Activist Lesbians
PDF Quebec
Haringey ReSisters
RadFem Collective
DC574
Center for Civil Courage
Fair Go for Queensland Women
Women’s Rights Action Group Edinburgh
Forwomen.scot
Canadian Women’s Declaration
Alberta Radfems
Edmonton Women and Allies Against the Sex Industry
The last shall be the first
REAL for Women
Georgia Green Party
Labour Women’s Declaration
Conservative Women’s Pledge
Liberal Democrats’ Grassroots Challenge to Policy on Women’s Sex Based Rights
Women Uniting
Anti Fascist Feminists
Deep Green Resistance
Women’s Action Group
Women Speak Tasmania
Feminists in Struggle
Safe Schools Alliance UK
WEP Women’s Sex-Based Rights Caucus
Leeds ReSisters
Hull and East Yorkshire ReSisters
Campaign Against Sex Robots
Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights – caWsbar
Royal Berkshire ReSisters
Transgender Trend
Maternity Consumer Network
Australian Feminist Lesbians for Equity
Women’s Space Vancouver
Radicailin
The Countess Didn’t Fight for This
Keep Prisons Single Sex
Campaign4Truth
LGB Alliance Ireland
Merched Cymru
Women’s Liberation Aotearoa
Partners for Ethical Care
Making Herstory
CIAMS-ICASM International Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood
Kerry Women’s Resource Centre
Temple of Diana, Inc
The Foundation for Families
Breaking Free
Victorian Women’s Guild
Greater Manchester Doulas CIC
Inga Thompson Foundation
The Vulva Temple of Witchcraft
Australian Lesbian Health Coalition
women@thewell
Stigamót
Zonta Club of Glens Falls
FOVAS (Female Only Violence and Abuse Survivors)
Freedom Programme
Shakti Moon Foundation
Women’s Liberation Radio News
Women’s Voices Matter
Crones Counsel
Edmonton Small Press Association
Radical Womyn Film Festival
An American Conversation Podcast
WREE – Women for Racial and Economic Equality
ACPicks Press
We Need To Talk
Ananke
Feminist Heretic
Radical Matriarchy
XX-Power Nation
Bright Future Lactation Resource Centre Ltd.
Audacious Women Festival
In Mothering
LesbianMeToo
Lesbian Echoes
Responses to the movement
References
Parsons, Vic (June 7, 2021). So-called ‘gender-critical’ feminists are ‘peddling the far-right agenda’, warns Institute of Race Relations. PinkNews https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/06/07/gender-critical-feminism-far-right-agenda-institute-race-relations-trans-transphobia/
Zanghellini, Aleardo (May 26, 2020). Philosophical problems with the gender-critical feminist argument against trans inclusion. SAGE Open https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244020927029
(June 5, 2021). A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities. The Economist https://www.economist.com/international/2021/06/04/a-backlash-against-gender-ideology-is-starting-in-universities