Gender critical

Gender-critical feminism

Since the 2010s, there has been a shift among proponents from 'TERF' to 'gender critical feminism', which reflects a shift towards language that obscures their trans-exclusionary focus. Proponents have claimed that despite its neutral origin, the term in practice had been used to "denigrate women's ideas". Because advocates of trans-exclusionary radical feminism advocate the exclusion of trans women from women's spaces, some academics have argued that this shift in language constitutes a problematic rebranding. This change in self-description was accompanied by other shifts in rhetoric, such as "anti-trans" becoming "pro-women" and "trans-exclusion" becoming the protection of "sex-based rights", aimed at cultivating mainstream support by appearing moderate to outsiders.