Author: Laurens Buijs
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![[AGTRT-BF45] Battle exchange between Sunak and Starmer over “what is a woman?”](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/d8b09-img_7258-1.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF45] Battle exchange between Sunak and Starmer over “what is a woman?”
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Last week, gender theory hit the news in the United Kingdom once again, with the remarkable accusation by PM Rishi Sunak that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer would not even be able to define what a woman is. Starmer would now believe that in some cases…
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![[AGTRT-BF44] From TERF to TEFC: fundamentalist Christians must also be critically questioned about their definition of bodily gender](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/d2e59-img_7180-1.png)
[AGTRT-BF44] From TERF to TEFC: fundamentalist Christians must also be critically questioned about their definition of bodily gender
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In addition to the anti-trans feminists (TERFs), another group has gone on a crusade against transgender people: anti-trans Christians. We call these TEFCs: Trans-Exclusionary Fundamentalist Christians (see AGTRT-BF36). At first glance, Christians and feminists do not have much in common. But anyone who looks closely will…
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![[AGTRT-BA22] Sexuality and gender will be radically reshaped in the near future, and monogamy will no longer be the ideal](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/07fcd-img_7174-1.jpg)
[AGTRT-BA22] Sexuality and gender will be radically reshaped in the near future, and monogamy will no longer be the ideal
Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Humanity is on the eve of the greatest cultural transformation that has ever taken place on earth: in the next 10 to 15 years, high-tech patriarchy will give way to high-tech matriarchy (see also AGTRT-BA19). How will the relationship between husband and wife change with the advent of this…
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![[AGTRT-BA21] Androgynous Humanity is more than a book: my ambitions with androgyny as thought](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/87a54-screenshot-2024-02-03-at-14.35.44.png)
[AGTRT-BA21] Androgynous Humanity is more than a book: my ambitions with androgyny as thought
Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team The publication of my forthcoming book Androgynous Humanity (see AGTRT-BA20) is only a first step in my ambition to bring a new body of thought about gender and sexuality into the world. I see the book as the starting shot of a potentially long-term and comprehensive project, with the…
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![[AGTRT-BF43] TERF supporters should be asked more often what definition of bodily gender they use](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5561b-img_7147-1.png)
[AGTRT-BF43] TERF supporters should be asked more often what definition of bodily gender they use
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team We have covered TERF ideology in previous blogs: the ideology of radical feminists who oppose transgenderism (see AGTRT-BF23, AGTRT-BF24 and AGTRT-BF33). Read more about the TERF ideology: The Dutch TERFs of the VOORZIJ Foundation maintain outdated positions on gender TERF ideology comes in different forms. At…
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![[AGTRT-BF42] How can the concept of bodily gender be concretely applied in gender theory?](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/440ce-img_7144-1.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF42] How can the concept of bodily gender be concretely applied in gender theory?
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team The notion of physical gender that we described in blog AGTRT-BF41 must prove itself in practice. Here we want to look at how physical gender can play a role in the discussion. Read more about physical gender: The concept of physical gender better captures the complexity…