Gender criticism is by definition feminist. The Saudi morality police are not feminist. They imprison and brutalise women for going out without a male escort or not wearing a veil. You're getting desperate.
Funny I've had people on here berate me for saying the gender critical movement is a feminist one.
I didn't berate you jj1968. After you condemned the gender critical movement for not campaigning for wider radical feminist aims, I explained that although the gender critical movement contains many feminist groups, it is not a feminist movement in and of itself.
Within the UK legislative context, policies and laws are being proposed and already put into practice that in addition to harming women and girls also affect freedom of speech, association and belief of the wider population as well as the safeguarding of vulnerable people, especially children. It also affects the rights of parents to act in the best interests of their children because various trans rights campaigns also advocate against previously established best practice in demanding a medical treatment approach to children who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria that is considered experimental and causing harmful, life-altering longterm effects.
Those who oppose various aspects of the now prevalent but previously fringe ideology underlying current legislative efforts to enshrine gender identity in law therefore include children's rights campaigners, free speech advocates, religious campaigners, parents and medical professionals, patient interest groups and others as well as feminist groups.
However, as NotTerfNorCis correctly points out in the quote I started this comment with, gender criticism itself is of course and by definition a view mostly held by feminists, moreso in the context of the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia.
This thread hasn't half blown up, partly because various issues keep being conflated that shouldn't be, so I just wanted to clarify why I said that in my view the gender critical movement as a whole cannot by definition, automatically, be assumed to be a feminist movement.
We probably should be calling it the opposition-to-enshrining-gender-identity-in-law-movement to accurately reflect what this is about, but that doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.