Confronting complex alliances: Situating Britain’s gender-critical politics within the wider transnational anti-gender movement

Lamble, Sarah (2024) Confronting complex alliances: Situating Britain’s gender-critical politics within the wider transnational anti-gender movement. Journal of Lesbian Studies , ISSN 1089-4160.

Abstract

Britain has recently gained notoriety as a global hotspot for anti-trans politics and ‘gender critical’ feminism. But what is the relationship between British ‘gender critical’ politics and the transnational ‘anti-gender’ movement? Does Britain’s gender critical feminism directly align with the global trends of anti-gender mobilisations, including the latter’s authoritarian and neofascist tendencies? This commentary argues for a context-specific analysis of the British gender-critical movement which is attentive to its divergent political orientations. While some strands of gender-critical politics are openly allied with far-right politics and are explicitly anti-feminist, others include prominent figures from left-wing positions, including left feminists and lesbians. Challenging gender-critical politics in Britain requires a reckoning with its cross-political nature and an analysis of the factors that unite these different strands across left and right.

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