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I am done with gender critics and am going feral

Rachel Saunders
5 min readFeb 11, 2025

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If it steps like a goose, honks like a Goebbels and cozies up to fascists then its time to call a Nazi a Nazi. Gender critical believers have spent the last decade shilling a version of womanhood straight out of the National Socialist playbook, a point they dodge every time you raise the comparisons with them. Hitler and Goebbels spent better part of twenty years espousing an understanding of where women should be and what they should do with their bodies, namely home, hearth, and eight kids. The American far right white nationalist movement picked up the baton in the 1970s and 80s in response to the libralisation of women in the workplace, which in turn the first wave of gender critics ran with due to the entrenched neo-Catholic rhetoric underpinning the ideology. Fast forward to the 2010s and the same deranged notions that womanhood can be defined purely by a chromosome test and ovaries has clawed is way back from the grave the Russians flung Hitler’s charred corpse into.

It is ironic that women like Kelly Jay Keen and Maya Forstater have spent time, energy and treasure demanding women’s rights only for virtually the entire gender critical mob to support Donald Trump the moment he enforces two sexes via an executive degree. Trump is the arch misogynist, a puppet being played by the fascists underpinning Project 2025. Each gender critic who lauds Trumpian…

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Rachel Saunders
Rachel Saunders

Written by Rachel Saunders

Writer, researcher, and generally curious

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