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[AGTRT-BF88] Helen Joyce wrote an instructive yet unclear book with TRANS
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team The book TRANS: When Ideolgy Meets Reality (2021) by Helen Joyce was published in hard cover in July 2021 and the paperback version in March 2022. The book was quickly very successful and became the book of the year for a number of media outlets. At…
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[AGTRT-BF87] Transgender politics: striving to maintain “trans acceptance”
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team For incomprehensible reasons, transgender activists (transactivists) want to give the impression that it is completely unnecessary, stupid and foolish to even consider for a second the arguments put forward by opponents of their positions (see also AGTRT-BF12 and AGTRT-BF85). Read more about the arrogance of transactivism:Valentijn…
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[AGTRT-BF86] Trans activism increasingly experiments with transgender rights, endangering original rights
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team There are several organizations and groups that claim to stand up for transgender interests and rights. For example Stonewall but also closer to home the Transgender Network Netherlands (TNN). But this is a careless and difficult claim to maintain, because it too easily assumes the accuracy…
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[AGTRT-BT2] Sari van Anders’ Sexual Configurations Theory (SCT): looking for a connection to formal gender theory (FGT)
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research TeamPhoto: Queen’s University From the now famous publication Beyond Sexual Orientation: Integrating Gender/Sex and Diverse Sexualities via Sexual Configurations Theory (2015) by Sari van Anders (Queen’s University), we extract the following excerpt from the introduction: “Sexual orientation is largely used as the primary way to describe a…
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[AGTRT-BF85] Valentijn de Hingh and the (self-claimed) rights of the frontline transactivist
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team It is difficult to move in the gender debate without coming into contact with what we refer to as the self-claimed rights of the frontline trans activist. We use the term frontline transactivism because we would like to retain the term transactivism for people who reasonably…
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[AGTRT-BT1] Sexual orientation: general principles
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Structure of this blog 1. Introduction Sexual orientation (SO) is a central topic of sexology, and we see questions about the definition and applicability of SO as central to theoretical sexology(TS). Our research team will in the near future address the question of how the gender…