Author: Laurens Buijs
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![[AGTRT-BF37] Marcus Dib is transsexual but not transgender: what does this mean for gender theory?](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/913db-screenshot-2024-01-26-at-12.14.30.png)
[AGTRT-BF37] Marcus Dib is transsexual but not transgender: what does this mean for gender theory?
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team An interview with Marcus Dib is circulating on YouTube. Dib was born a woman, but now goes through life as a transgender man. Yet “he” sees himself as biologically female, and “he” does not want to be called transgender. We see a strikingly strong and clear…
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![[AGTRT-BA18] The woman embodies both Madonna and the whore, and only men who have integrated their feminine side can handle that](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/48006-img_7054-1.jpg)
[AGTRT-BA18] The woman embodies both Madonna and the whore, and only men who have integrated their feminine side can handle that
Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Among straight people I often feel like a gay man, but among gay people I feel like a straight man. When I am among straight people I immediately feel that I am “different.” I do not have a typical heterosexual marriage with a wife, mortgage, children, steady job. I…
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![[AGTRT-BF36] Essentialist thinking about gender is especially evident among feminists and Christians](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/a8cf7-img_7041-1.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF36] Essentialist thinking about gender is especially evident among feminists and Christians
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In previous blogs, we have covered TERF ideology. TERF stands for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist. Within the TERF community there is again a multitude of differences of opinion but there is agreement in that corner that transgenderism is undesirable, or else that transgenderism cannot exist and therefore…
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![[AGTRT-BF35] Gender-critical feminists are not necessarily against transgender people](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/7c144-screenshot-2024-01-25-at-02.35.33.png)
[AGTRT-BF35] Gender-critical feminists are not necessarily against transgender people
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team The Guardian recently described that in the United Kingdom a number of employers have been taken to task by the courts for disadvantaging employees because of their gender-critical views. This is a good thing, freedom of speech is a great thing. What stood out was the…
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![[AGTRT-BF34] What conditions must moderate gender theories satisfy?](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ac518-moderate.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF34] What conditions must moderate gender theories satisfy?
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In a series of reports, messages and blogs, we have outlined our search for a MotR (middle of the road) version of formal gender theory (FGT) in order to achieve a workable compromise between the various extremes, particularly between gender essentialism and gender co-essentialism. In AGTRT-BF32,…
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![[AGTRT-BA17] Sex workers are stigmatized in patriarchy, but are in reality sacred healers](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/31f7c-img_7003-1.jpg)
[AGTRT-BA17] Sex workers are stigmatized in patriarchy, but are in reality sacred healers
Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team From 2008 to 2018, I conducted research on sexuality and gender in the Amsterdam Red Light District. It was a great time. I learned a lot there about an important symbolic figure in any human society, and certainly the Amsterdam one: the whore. Because we now view the whore…