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I'm a casual TP fan, so can't comment too much on characters or plot, but I do find it fascinating that the language around these issues has morphed and changed (again) to the point of obfuscating the obvious. (Perhaps TP would have been interested, too)
"GC" stands for Gender Critical but it now seems synonymous with "terf" and has lost all meaning.
It also interests me that people are saying things like "she's a GC" which also makes it seem synonymous with an insult rather than as a description of specific points of view.
Language is interesting.
It is interesting, and very strange.
I am in my mid-forties now. I would have said that all my life I have been accepting of other people and dismissive of gender stereotypes.
As a child I was probably described as a tomboy but I think I was a fairly typical example of any child who is just left alone to get on with what they like and enjoy without being told "but that's for boys and this is for girls" and even before I had the words to describe how I felt about stereotypes, I think I might have come up with "stupid" as the best way to describe them. My best male friend would come to my house and we would go from playing with Lego to playing with the Sindy house, to prancing around in a conga line of two singing the "somebody at the door" song from the Pink Windmill until we drove my mum crazy and then we'd go outside and ride bikes or skip.
But I also recognised the physical differences between sexes. I didn't want to be in the bath with my brother, I didn't want to get changed with the boys at school, or use the boys toilet. I knew I was glad that the older boy at school who scared girls by asking them to take down their underwear had to use a different room to change in and a different toilet block to pee in. I knew if he got into the girls block, it wouldn't be good for whichever girl was in there at the time, even if I wasn't old enough to fully understand why.
As I grew up I've felt I've always been open minded and accepting of other people's feelings, their choices, their sexuality, and they way they express themselves.
And yet somehow, it's like we've gone through the looking glass and only a rigid belief in gender stereotypes and what they mean for a persons sex / gender is acceptable now.
It breaks my heart that six years ago, my friend was raging at her daughter's teacher because they suggested that her love of superheroes, the way she dressed, and her preference for playing with boys and 'boys things' might mean she was trans rather than just a perfectly normal girl with interests outside of an ever narrowing stereotype of things that girls are allowed to like.
And yet just six years later, they are heading down the road of medication, name changes, and are both posting videos on social media about conversion therapy and how anything but 100% affirmation every second of the day will lead to suicide.
It makes me wonder what would have happened to me and my best male friend (now happily married to his husband) had we been those children but growing up now. What would school and society have said and done to us to make us fit the stereotypes they would have pushed us into. Which of us would be on medication? Which of us would have been on the list for surgery? Would either of us still have our own birth names? Would we both have someone convincing us that our choices were to transition or die? Would I now be a 'gay' man, and my friend be a 'heterosexual' woman?
I wouldn't have called myself gender-critical back then, but I can look back and see that I was. And how is it that now, the meaning of gender critical has been changed so much, because we've embraced stereotypes to the point that we will turn children into lifelong medical patients to fit them and at the same time admit grown adults who have done nothing to fit them into previously safer single sex spaces? As you say, language is interesting, and I feel like we are living in the curse Terry Pratchett mentioned, we are living in Interesting Times.