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gender critical

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[ jen-der krit-i-kuhl ]

adjective

  1. relating to, holding, or promoting the belief that sex ( def 2 ) is a binary and unchangeable characteristic that is determined at birth and that dictates a person's social, linguistic, and legal status or position.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of gender critical1

First recorded in 1985–90
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Example Sentences

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She lost her case at an employment tribunal case, but an Appeal Court judge later ruled that gender critical beliefs were protected by the Equalities Act.

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His comments were ridiculed by then Tory leader Sunak – and did not go down well with gender critical campaigners in his own party.

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Last year, the Greens were ordered by a court to pay nearly £100,000 to their former deputy leader Shahrar Ali after it found the party had discriminated against him when they fired him as a spokesman during a row over his gender critical beliefs.

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Judge Stephen Hellman said he could not rule out the possibility that this unfairness had been due Ali's gender critical beliefs.

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He has also denied people with gender critical beliefs, which include those who believe that people cannot change sex, were banned from expressing their views at the Green Party conference.

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