Evan Urquhart

I said other- I’d be willing to use another term, but not “gender critical” bc it is misleading and inaccurate. TERF is somewhat inaccurate as well, bc the current era TERFs aren’t necessarily even feminists, but more accurate than gender-critical.

That’s interesting ... what about the descriptor “gender critical” is inaccurate and misleading ?

I’m a journalist. If I write about radical feminists who exclude trans women, the general public understand “Ok, so they’re feminists and they have some kinda issue with trans people.” It gives a sense of what we’re talking about. Not perfect accuracy, but we’re in the ballpark.

If, on the other hand, I write gender critical the general public is no closer to understanding than if I wrote oogity-boogity. “Critical of gender? Whose gender? What does it mean? Probably just means they hate men, like all feminists” It’s so euphemistic as to be meaningless.

OK, ... 2 points. As a journalist you’re introducing a natural bias by writing about feminists “who exclude transwomen” rather than feminists defending their sex based rights, including the right to self determination. But that’s really not the point here. /1

Given GCs use that phrase because they are literally critical of the concept of innate gender and the stereo types it relies on ... is it not part of your job as a journalist to explain what it means to the uninformed (agreeing or not as u see fit) /end

To the best of my knowledge, every trans person in academia is also "literally critical of the concept of innate gender and the stereotypes it relies on" as are non-TERF feminists/rad fems, so that's not really a distinguishing factor.