Day: April 12, 2024
-
[AGTRT-BF81] The Genderbread Person is widely used in education, but a scientific basis is lacking
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Structure of this blog 1. Introduction The Genderbread Person is the Dutch design of the Genderbread Person by Sam Killermann. This is a drawing of a puppet of gingerbread, now used in Dutch primary schools, for example, to educate children about gender and sexuality diversity. On…
-
[AGTRT-BF80] Alex Byrne and Richard Dawkins see problems with the term “sex assigned at birth” that are not there
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team This past week, two opinion pieces appeared in the American press expressing dissatisfaction with the term “sex assigned at birth.” On April 3, the opinion piece “The problem with saying ‘sex assigned at birth’”(archive.ph) by Alex Byrne and Carole K. Hooven in The New York Times,…