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Do you think the term "Gender Critical" is why some people won't engage?

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Brefugee · 14/11/2025 15:11

What i mean is, "gender critical" must put the backs up of people who are on the fence or are already some level of TRA? Because it sounds "critical" and that has negative connotations.

Do you think that if we'd adopted the term "sex realist" it might have worked a bit more in our favour? Especially with people who don't spend any time at all in this "discussion"?

I was thinking about it while perusing this article

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/media/article/bbc-trans-ideology-childrens-programmes-chq292hfz

http://archive.today/iDMMq
(archive link)

Maybe the minions at the BBC would feel more able to engage in a proper discussion about all this if they didn't hear "gender critical" but "sex realist"?

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Alucard55 · 14/11/2025 15:22

Yes I feel in terms of womens rights I'm not interested in gender (as I understand it) I'm only interested in biological reality. In regards to trans rights I don't care about men who want to pretend they are women I just want them to stay out of womens spaces.
They can sort the rest out themselves.

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Brefugee · 14/11/2025 15:19

Oh yes, i will always correct "Trans issues" to "women's rights issues" but i have started not agreeing that i am GC and say "sex realist" instead. It has lead to a few interesting discussions.

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Alucard55 · 14/11/2025 15:18

I don't like the term "Gender Critical" but I don't like the term "Trans woman" either. I personally think it would be more helpful to say women's rights rather than trans issues and I wish we could move to language that was based in facts and all start calling men men.