Ethnographer, entrepreneur, lecturer; looking for world peace
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[AGTRT-BF27] Additional terminology for gender theory: self-perceived sex and gender
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team The American organization Do No Harm uses the following definition of biological sex: “Sex means the biological indications of male and female in the context of reproductive potential or capacity, such as sexual chromosomes, naturally occurring sex hormones, gonads, and nonambiguous internal and external genitalia present…
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[AGTRT-BF26] Progressive movements in the Netherlands play into the hands of political opponents themselves
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In our previous blog AGTRT-BF25, we discussed what we felt were unfair qualifications from the Studium Generale of Utrecht University toward opponents of the proposed new transgender law. In our opinion, such qualifications only end up supporting opposition to this law. The habit of progressive movements…
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[AGTRT-BF25] Utrecht University says it wants to protect transgender people, but only plays into the hands of radical gender-critical voices
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Utrecht University’s Studium Generale held an event called Transgender Rights Under Pressure on Nov. 29. In the announcement we read: “The ‘antigender movement’ is becoming more and more fierce. She opposes the new Transgender Act, which is supposed to make it easier to change your gender.”…
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[AGTRT-BF24] The complaints of the Dutch TERFs do not change their outdated position on gender
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Our blog AGTRT-BF23, which qualifies supporters of VOORZIJ as TERF, was not welcomed by VOORZIJ, as we can tell from their complaints on social media. We seem to need to understand that for them it is not about gender but about sex. But transgendering is thus…
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[AGTRT-BF23] The Dutch TERFs of the VOORZIJ Foundation maintain outdated positions on gender
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team The gender debate is complicated by participants who, for reasons difficult to understand, stubbornly cling to outdated positions. This happens in the Roman Catholic Church, in the Russian Orthodox Church, but also in feminist circles among the adherents of so-called trans-exclusionary radical feminism (or TERF). This…
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[AGTRT-BF22] Essentialist thinking about gender is often paradoxical and unreasonable, but it can also be moderate
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Essentialism about gender amounts to subscribing to the following four principles: Essentialism is often seen as old-fashioned in progressive circles, but it is far from gone. Indeed, we find it in a wide variety of movements. On the one hand, these include the Roman Catholic Church,…