2020 November 21, When Fates Collide (@X_Warrior_P), Twitter[1]:
It's really ignorant to claim it's radfems and GCs that put this pressure to transition/not being woman enough on tomboys and butch lesbians.
2021 July 24, Radfem Black (@RadfemBlack), Twitter[2]:
Bruh this seems to be a regular thing that TRAs accuse GCs of.
2021 November 19, Yana (@lesbian_envy), Twitter[3]:
GCs prove everyday they're actually just critical of trans people, not critical of gender
2021 November 28, SophieXY (@SophieXY44), Twitter[4]:
That’s LITERALLY what trans activists say and what GCs are fighting against.
2022, Simone Kotva, "Witchcraft, Indigenous Religion And The Ethics of Decolonization: An Experiment In Co-Labouring", in The Modern Craft: Powerful Voices on Witchcraft Ethics (eds. Alice Tarbuck & Claire Askew), unnumbered page:
They call themselves “gender criticals” or “GCs,” but they are also widely known as TERFs […]
2022 June 24, DJ Cthulhu (@RealDJCthulhu), Twitter[5]:
To all the GCs and other supposed “feminists” who allied with the far right over your hatred of trans people: I hope you’re happy with Roe v Wade being overturned. You helped.
GCs blaming trans women for the loss of Roe is just mindboggling in so many ways, but one big baseline is that the average trans woman is more likely to be militantly pro-choice and solidarity minded on this issue than cis women.
2022 June 26, Lee WilliamDesigns (@designs_william), Twitter[7]:
When I pointed out the other day that prominent GCs had been pretty silent on #RoeVsWade or had tried deflecting onto trans people, I had this response from a GC.
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2020, Mike Hannis, "Radical Intransigence", The Land, Issue 26 (2020), page 13:
Trans rights activists denounce GC writers as ‘bigots’, and refuse to discuss the issues they raise.
2020, Callie H. Burt, "Scrutinizing the U.S. Equality Act 2019: A Feminist Examination of Definitional Changes and Sociolegal Ramifications", Feminist Criminology, Volume 15, Issue 4 (2020), page 25:
GC feminism wholly rejects the notion that gender maps onto sex.
2020, Sarah Pedersen, The Politicization of Mumsnet, page 123:
One poster, who thanked her for signing the letter, commented, 'The secrecy with which GC women have to find each other is just absurd. […]
2021, Craig McLean, "The Growth of the Anti-Transgender Movement in the United Kingdom: The Silent Radicalization of the British Electorate", International Journal of Sociology, June 2021:
Meanwhile, GC groups continue to lobby against amendments to the GRA, and are also campaigning against existing rights that trans people enjoy.
2021, Edward Segarra, "TERFs Explained", Watermark, 15 April 2021 - 28 April 2021, page 28:
A look at Funny's Twitter bio reveals that Funny identifies as a gender-critical feminist, or “GC” for short.
2021, Finn Mackay, Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars: The Politics of Sex, page 12:
In a blog about why she takes a GC stance, author J. K. Rowling discloses that thirty years ago she may have transitioned to live as a trans man, to escape the 'sexualised scrutiny and judgement that sets so many girls to war against their bodies in their teens' (2020).