Magdalena Grzyb

She is the daughter of Wieńczysław Grzyb, lawyer from Żywiec; sister of lawyer Przemysław Grzyb.^[1]

From 2003 to 2008, she studied law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University. In 2015, she obtained a PhD in law from the same faculty^[2] for her thesis Kryminologiczne i prawnokarne aspekty przestępstw motywowanych kulturowo (Criminological and Criminal Aspects of Culturally Motivated Crimes), supervised by Janina Błachut [pl].^[3] In 2025 she obtained a habilitation degree.

She was elected secretary of the Criminology Commission of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[4] In September 2023, she became a member of the supervisory board of the Women's Rights Center [pl].^[5][6][7]

She published a monograph Kobieta jako ofiara zabójstwa. Studium kryminologiczne (Woman as a Victim of Murder. A Criminological Study, 2024).^[8][9] She co-authored the book Kryminologia: zarys systemu (Criminology: Outline of the System, 2022; together with Jan Widacki, Wojciech Dadak [pl] and Anna Szuba-Boroń).^[10]

Magdalena Grzyb has described herself as a “cursed feminist”^[11] and a victim of cancel culture.^[12][13] Her journalistic texts have appeared on the Kultura Liberalna [pl] portal^[14] and Gazeta Wyborcza.^[15] In December 2021, her lecture as part of the 16 Days Against Gender-Based Violence event at the Jagiellonian University sparked protests following accusations of transphobia against Magdalena Grzyb.^{[12][16][17][18]} At that time, Przemysław Czarnek, the Minister of Education and Science, defended Magdalena Grzyb.^[13] She sued Maja Heban after Heban called her “TERF”.^[19][20][21] Łukasz Sakowski [pl] testified in court as a witness in the case.^[22]