Critically examining the role of gender in a text, a person's experiences, etc. / (UK, neologism) Espousing, characteristic of, or relating to gender-critical feminism.

(informal) A person who holds gender-critical beliefs.

plural of gender critical

Alternative form of gender-critical. / Alternative form of gender-critical: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see gender, critical.

A branch of feminism (connected with radical feminism) centering on an essentialist view of sex as a binary and unchangeable biological characteristic, rejecting the concept of gender identity and generally viewing transgender people as belonging to the sex they were assigned at birth, in particular believing that trans women are not women and/or should not be included in women's spaces, and that trans men should not transition.