Author: Laurens Buijs

Jan Bergstra & Laurens Buijs Amsterdam Gender Theory Research Team The election is just around the corner, but there is hardly any support for the new transgender law in the party manifestos. Only VOLT and BIJ1 make explicit their support for it. This raises the expectation that a new transgender law will not come soon.…

Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Until recently, a new transgender law was based on co-essentialism, or the idea that biology plays no role in determining gender, and the even stronger assertion that everyone gets to determine their own gender. We wondered about the fate of the transgender bill in current party…

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…

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…

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…