Gender Critical Feminism Is Not Critical of Gender, Nor Is It Good Feminism
How a failed feminism fails to live up to its name
UPDATE 2023: I wrote all these essays back when I was immersed in trans ideology. I detransitioned and I’ve changed my mind about many things. https://youtube.com/@RayAlexWilliams?si=JIEdBcopAIxOPtEW
“Gender critical” feminism (henceforth GC feminism) claims to be critical of gender. They see gender as a social construct, and a harmful one at that. They see the system of gender as nothing but stereotypes about the male and female sex and furthermore that these stereotypes operate together to oppress cis females on account of the bodies they possess.
GC feminists define “women” simply as those people who are bearers of eggs and have the innate potential to get pregnant. They ignore intersex people as anomalies and deny that sex is a multidimensional spectrum. GC feminists focus much of their time and energy criticizing trans people, and especially trans women, for trying to replace this bioessentialist definition of womanhood with one that’s more expansive, one that includes trans women under the umbrella of womanhood, one that recognizes trans men as men and not deluded, self-hating women, and one that recognizes nonbinary people as valid in their rejection of the limitations of the gender binary to define who they…
