Gender-critical feminism

Gender-critical feminism, also known as trans-exclusionary radical feminism (TERF) or TERFism, is an ideology or movement that opposes what it refers to as "<a href="/facts/Gender_ideology/EjVCpnmB">gender ideology</a>". Gender-critical feminists believe that <a href="/facts/Sex/ssBol2pP">sex</a> is biological, immutable, and binary, and consider the concepts of <a href="/facts/Gender_identity/GhaeHYtb">gender identity</a> and <a href="/facts/Gender_self-identification/GhaeHYtb">gender self-identification</a> to be inherently oppressive constructs tied to <a href="/facts/Gender_roles/pt2sQYD2">gender roles</a>. They reject <a href="/facts/Transgender/LuADj6gz">transgender</a> identities; for example, they describe trans women as men.
Originating as a <a href="/facts/Fringe_movement/GHD6g8h9">fringe</a> movement within <a href="/facts/Radical_feminism/kcsbMVDp">radical feminism</a> mainly in the <a href="/facts/United_States/P0sCdLe5">United States</a>, trans-exclusionary radical feminism has achieved prominence in the <a href="/facts/United_Kingdom/kuPAILt2">United Kingdom</a> and <a href="/facts/South_Korea/pCobAaVw">South Korea</a>, where it has been at the centre of high-profile controversies. It has been linked to promotion of <a href="/facts/Disinformation/JNY1zmLJ">disinformation</a> and to the <a href="/facts/Anti-gender_movement/EjVCpnmB">anti-gender movement</a>. Anti-gender rhetoric has seen increasing circulation in gender-critical feminist discourse since 2016, including use of the term "<a href="/facts/Gender_ideology/EjVCpnmB">gender ideology</a>". In several countries, gender-critical feminist groups have formed alliances with right-wing, <a href="/facts/Far-right/QpBMz5Ss">far-right</a>, and <a href="/facts/Anti-feminist/jQFsg3FT">anti-feminist</a> organisations.
Gender-critical feminism has been described as <a href="/facts/Transphobia/7xo6qgo0">transphobic</a> by feminist and scholarly critics.. It is opposed by many feminist, <a href="/facts/LGBT_rights_organization/JfIpP5KK">LGBT rights</a>, and <a href="/facts/Human_rights_organization/4PLyM1AN">human rights organizations</a>. The <a href="/facts/Council_of_Europe/51I3TyDg">Council of Europe</a> has condemned gender-critical ideology, among other ideologies, and linked it to "virulent attacks on the rights of <a href="/facts/Intersex_and_LGBT/HfMrWKrQ">LGBTI</a> people" in <a href="/facts/Hungary/YRedQLtI">Hungary</a>, <a href="/facts/Poland/eXJ7fd0D">Poland</a>, <a href="/facts/Russia/jfkCwyxn">Russia</a>, <a href="/facts/Turkey/KIYAWAs0">Turkey</a>, the United Kingdom, and other countries. <a href="/facts/UN_Women/JHJg07VA">UN Women</a> has described the gender-critical movement, among other movements, as extreme <a href="/facts/Anti-rights_movements/bM0PTSWB">anti-rights movements</a> that employ <a href="/facts/Hate_propaganda/y6Wmy5sx">hate propaganda</a> and disinformation.

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