Author: Laurens Buijs

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…

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…

Jan Bergstra & Laurens Buijs Amsterdam Gender Theory Research Team The most notable author on gender theory in recent years, as far as we can tell, is Robin Dembroff (self-proclaimed non-binary, Yale/Princeton). In Why be nonbinar (2018), Dembroff describes the essence of being nonbinary. We explained in AGTRT-1 and in AGTRT-3 why we think neutral…

Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In the publication“Unpacking the Sin of Gender” (Religion & Gender 2016), Sarah Bracke and David Paternotte turn against the Roman Catholic Church’s view of what Pope Francis calls “gender ideology.” Let us begin by emphasizing that of course we do not subscribe to the pope’s views…

Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team A lively discussion about gender has erupted in the Netherlands, but we notice that the knowledge institutes on gender at universities are hardly involved in this discussion, if at all. We also see little sign yet that gender studies (commonly called gender studies) as a discipline…

Jan Bergstra and Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Since March 2023, we have been working on what we call formal gender theory (AGTRT-1, AGTRT-4). But what do we really mean by this, and why do we think we are making such a valuable contribution to the field of gender studies? The term “formal gender…