Gender-Critical Feminism
Gender-critical feminism – often abbreviated as GCF – is a term used to describe a strand of feminism that is commonly identified by its critics with trans-exclusionary radical feminism (TERF). In many debates, the terms gender-critical feminism and trans-exclusionary radical feminism are treated as ideologically equivalent, since both refer to feminist positions that reject the inclusion of trans women within the category of women.
Representatives of this current generally regard biological sex as a fixed binary reality. From this perspective, intersex people are interpreted not as challenging the binary model of sex, but as exceptions or variations within it, while transgender people are understood as belonging to the sex assigned to them at birth rather than to the gender with which they identify.
According to Sheila Jeffreys, an Australian feminist and scholar of the history and politics of human sexuality, sex is a fixed reality. On this basis, she argues that referring to transgender women with feminine pronouns is morally wrong because, in her view, it constitutes a dishonest act.
Reference:
Williams, Cristan. (2014, December 8). Gender Critical Feminism, the roots of Radical Feminism and Trans oppression. The TransAdvocate. Retrieved from https://www.transadvocate.com/gender-critical-feminism-the-roots-of-radical-feminism-and-trans-oppression_n_14766.htm
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