Author: Laurens Buijs

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Team The gender debate is complicated by participants who, for reasons difficult to understand, stubbornly cling to outdated positions.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…

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,…

Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In AGTRT-9, we listed a series of versions of gender theory and arranged them according to increasing transinclusiveness. Although instructive, said overview does not provide sufficiently useful names for the versions yet to be designed. But such names are easy to come up with if we…

Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Version 2 of this blog appeared on April 9, 2024Version 1 can be read back here Structure of this blog 1. Introduction It is unfortunate that the discussion of gender is so often flattened to the question of whether or not there are more than two…

Jan Bergstra & Laurens Buijs Amsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In the Roman Catholic Church (RCC), gender theory is a major topic that is mostly dismissed, but there are other voices. A striking example emerges in an interview in The Pillar with Cardinal Eijk. Cardinal Eijk argues that there is a multiplicity of gender theories…