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gender critical

gender critical is the alternative form of gender-critical.

Meaning of gender-critical

Adjective

gender-critical (comparative more gender-critical, superlative most 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...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...
  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.2013 August 2, Elizabeth Hungerford, “Sex Is Not Gender”, in CounterPunch, retrieved 06 Dec 2022
    Synonyms:
    GC

Noun

gender critical (plural gender criticals)

  1. (informal) A person who holds gender-critical beliefs.
    • Word on the street is gender criticals have started using "male to trans" and "female to trans" to describe trans people...2014 October 29, Danny Birb (@transvulcan), Twitter
    • That Sedgwick's case for foundationalist gayness incorporates both the arguments and the premises avowed by Stock and the other gender criticals would likely unnerve everyone except for Reed.2023, Grace Lavery, “The Egg and the Essay”, in Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 128

Synonyms of gender critical

Forms of gender critical

Adjective
comparativemore gender critical
superlativemost gender critical
Noun
pluralgender criticals

Questions about gender critical

What does gender critical mean?
Gender critical means a person who holds gender-critical beliefs.
What is gender critical the alternative form of?
Gender critical is the alternative form of gender-critical.
What part of speech is gender critical?
Gender critical is a noun.
What is the plural of gender critical?
The plural of gender critical is gender criticals.

Words near gender critical in the dictionary

  1. gender changer
  2. gender changers
  3. gender cleavage
  4. gender confirmation surgeries
  5. gender confirmation surgery
  6. gender critical
  7. gender criticals
  8. gender diverse
  9. gender dysphoria
  10. gender dysphorias
  11. gender envy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gender critical (page history and authors); gender-critical (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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