Ethnographer, entrepreneur, lecturer; looking for world peace
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[AGTRT-BA13] Liberation from totalitarianism can only be achieved through sexual liberation
Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team According to German-Jewish psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich (1897 – 1957), a sexual energy called Orgon flows through the entire universe and all living things. Reich spent a lifetime researching orgasm and concluded that the only thing wrong with neurotic patients is the lack of complete and regular sexual satisfaction. According…
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[AGTRT-BF16] The Netherlands needs a gender-critical movement
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In the UK, we are currently seeing the emergence of a gender critical movement that cuts across political parties. The cause of this is increasing resistance to the view that gender (of a person) is nothing more, or different, than a result of self-identification (by that…
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[AGTRT-BF15] Diversity of views: not redundant for gender studies in the Netherlands either
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team (AGTRT). It is important for the preservation of academic freedom and pluralistic debate that opinions can differ with all good will. But this insight seems to be wasted on professionals in Dutch gender studies. While worldwide gender theory is a hot topic and people are fighting…
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[AGTRT-BF14] If a trans-inclusive notion of gender does not exist in theory, why do we want it in practice?
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Tomas Bogardus describes in his publication Why the trans inclusion problem cannot be solved (2022) details why there can be no trans-inclusive notion of gender, at least not under the conditions prescribed by recent gender theory à la Bettcher, Jenkins, Barnes, Dembroff and others. These conditions…
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[AGTRT-BF13] Who is bullying whom? Discussion between De Sutter and Sunak on transgender is clouded by unclear definitions
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Belgian Deputy Prime Minister De Sutter and British Prime Minister Sunak accuse each other of bullying in a discussion about transgender people. This is evident from the following quote from The Guardian on Oct. 6: “Belgium’s deputy prime minister, who ranks as one of Europe’s most…
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[AGTRT-BF12] Transactivism preaches inclusion to mask a systematic practice of exclusion
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Just as Trump positions himself as a democrat at heart, trans activism manages to position itself as a movement for inclusion. Those are both samples of successful deception. It is notable that the former is indeed seen in progressive-liberal circles: there, there is broad consensus that…