'Gender Critical' Was Never Going to Work Out as a Long-Term Political Realignment

It's just diverse humanity agreeing women exist

Negative partisanship is the single most unappreciated force in American politics. Partisan tribalism has only increased with social media. A general political realignment is impossible after the Supreme Court decision last week to let states shut down abortion access. As a result, “gender critical” spaces will remain a potent force of ideas, but “gender criticism” will never cohere as a united political movement. There are too many countervailing forces at work.

Because I am a historian with a political science degree and too many years in progressive advocacy organizing spaces, I was intellectually prepared to see the gender critical “movement” follow a familiar pattern. Any social movement of very different people who all just happen to be right about the same thing being true is not going to cohere very long, if at all. Too many differences exist within the coalition of people who believe women exist. Without a unifying umbrella organization to defend human sex difference in law an…