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In this conversation, Lawford-Smith outright said that gender-critical feminism isn't intersectional, an unfortunate statement (explicitly exclusive!!) that I reflected in my story.

Confusingly, she also said gender-critical feminism has a place for all women, including disabled women and women of color — which seemed to contradict her previous statement. And as I couldn't reconcile it with the previous statement, I didn't put it in my story.

Having slept on it, the obvious answer came to me: Her version of feminism accepts women who "incidentally happen" to be marginalized in other ways, but she doesn't want anyone to talk about those other marginalizations in feminist contexts. She wants women to somehow peel off their other identities and separate them from what she understands as women's proper discourse that's properly about women and not about "other" stuff. That's why she claims that feminism should include all kinds of women (tokenistically!) yet feminism itself shouldn't be intersectional in its analyses and recommendations.

Someday I'll read one of her books to get the details, but I'm just not up for the trashfire today.