Author: Laurens Buijs
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![[AGTRT-BA15] The transition to a better world calls for a new sexual revolution](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/f09ee-sexual-rev.jpg)
[AGTRT-BA15] The transition to a better world calls for a new sexual revolution
Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team I like to compare sex to electricity. It’s about polarity and energy. Good sex flows freely, requiring a plus and a minus. The plus and minus of sex are dominance and submission. Kink is not just something of the BDSM scene, but is part of every person’s sexual desires.…
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![[AGTRT-BF28] Our search for a middle-of-the-road gender theory has led us into a curious two-front war](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/53200-img_6550-1.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF28] Our search for a middle-of-the-road gender theory has led us into a curious two-front war
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team We with the Amsterdam Gender Theory Research Team have been searching for some time for a compromise between gender essentialism (man and woman as highly fixed) and gender co-essentialism (man and woman as highly malleable). In other words, we are looking for a Middle-of-the-Road (MotR) version…
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![[AGTRT-BF27] Additional terminology for gender theory: self-perceived sex and gender](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/60fcb-img_6549.jpg)
[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](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/4d4bd-img_6517.jpg)
[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](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/0d546-img_6473-1.jpg)
[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](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/edd01-img_6464.jpg)
[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…