GC-Fとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

GCF (countable and uncountable, plural GCFs)

1. (arithmetic) Initialism of greatest common factor.

   Coordinate term: LCD (“lowest common denominator”)

2. (feminism) Initialism of gender-critical feminist.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:gender-critical feminist

   • 2019 August 6, Shannon Dea, “Academic freedom, scholarly responsibility and the new gender wars”, in University Affairs:

     Now imagine that, as is the case with many British GCF philosophers, the instructor believes that trans women in women’s prisons pose an unacceptable threat to the safety of inmates in those prisons. […] The pay-off, though, of defending GCFs in cases like the above is that by the very same principle we defend other controversial scholarship, including emerging scholarly areas like transgender studies or critical race studies.

   • 2019 August 12, Taryn Knox, Lynley Anderson, Alison Heather, “Transwomen in elite women’s sport – clarifying the nuances of our approach”, in Journal of Medical Ethics:

     A GCF might claim that transwomen should not be included in the category ‘women’.

   • 2019, Saoirse Caitlin O'Shea, “Cutting my dick off”, in Culture and Organization, volume 25, number 4, page 281:

     GCFs talk of my body and flesh and find it to be mutilated.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:GCF.
3. (feminism) Initialism of gender-critical feminism.
   • 2018, Laine Yale Zisman Newman, Placefull Spaces: Queer Women and Non-Binary Artists Resisting an Emptied Stage, thesis submitted to the University of Toronto‎, page 25:

     In contrast to trans-exclusionary radical feminism (TERF) and Gender Critical Feminism (GCF), which theorize women’s identities and spaces to the exclusion of transgender women […]