It's a whole other matter, but, as it happens, I do agree with the "gender critical" crowd about one thing: they aren't TERFs. There were actual radical feminists who were trans exclusionary (and that's its own problem), but Rowling, Kathleen Stock, and company aren't radical feminists. They're just reactionaries, recycling the arguments of the "gay panic" of my childhood into a new "trans panic".
(They aren't "gender critical", either, since their position amounts to reinforcing sharp gender boundaries and expectations; their "criticism" of gender is just that we should just call it "sex" instead. But that, too, is a whole other matter.)
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