Gender Critical Woman
The website gendercriticalwoman.blog hosts an English-language blog titled @STILLTish. Gender Abolition. The author writes under that pseudonym. According to its own description, the blog examines gender identity ideology and its consequences for women’s sex-based rights and gay rights.
What you will find
The blog consists of extensive series on organisations, funds, individuals and legislation, such as the UK Gender Recognition Act, WPATH, the Tavistock clinic and detransition. It is known for its coverage of the report that the law firm Dentons wrote with the Thomson Reuters Foundation for the youth umbrella organisation IGLYO in 2019 on legal gender recognition for young people; a copy of that document is available on the blog.
Why it is included on this list
It is a personal, outspoken gender-critical blog without editorial oversight or academic review. Its main value lies in the collected references to original documents on legal and policy issues. The interpretation is the author’s own. This website’s article on lgbtdatabase.com discusses the funding flows behind international gender policy.
The Dentons document
The report is titled Only Adults? Good Practices in Legal Gender Recognition for Youth and was published in November 2019. It is 65 pages long and compares the rules on legal gender recognition in Norway, Malta, Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Portugal and the United Kingdom, with a focus on young people. Dentons and the Thomson Reuters Foundation contributed to it free of charge. According to reports in the British legal press, the report recommends that states abolish the minimum age for legal recognition. Campaigners are advised to link their proposal to more popular reforms and to limit media attention. These passages are central to the criticism of the document. A Dutch-language summary of the report and the controversy surrounding it can be found on genderlobby.nl.
Dissemination of the analyses
The blogger’s analysis of the Dentons document also appeared on Graham Linehan’s Substack on 24 October 2020, as the first of three parts. See The Glinner Update. In the analysis, the blogger examines the organisations that contributed to the report, companies named as sponsors and government funding from, among others, the UK Government Equalities Office. The author also publishes under the same name on Substack.
How to assess this source
The author is anonymous. Their background and expertise therefore cannot be verified. It is best to consult the original documents referenced by the blog. The factual content of the Dentons document can be checked. The conclusion that there is a coordinated and deliberately concealed strategy is the blogger’s interpretation. Information on how countries regulate legal gender recognition can be found under policy by country.