Blogs about Formal Gender Theory (FGT) – Amsterdam Gender Theory Research Team (AGTRT)

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[AGTRT-BF101] A Dutch version of the Cass review is a good idea, but Cal Horton’s criticisms should be included (May 6, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF100] Transcompatible Manifesto (May 5, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF99] The legal effect hypothesis for legal gender (April 29, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF98] When will the Roman Catholic Church take a positive step regarding gender transition? (April 28, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF97] The gender profile: ramification of gender identities within gender male and gender female (April 26, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF96] Lisa van Ginneken turns world upside down: not NSC, but proponents of stranded bill threaten trans rights (April 26, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF95] The microscopy of neutral gender: agender, non-gender, non-binary, pangender, polygender, and omnigender (April 25, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF94] What’s new about “Formal Gender Theory” (FGT)? (April 23, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF93] Primary gender identity (PHI) matters in gender transition decisions (April 23, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF92] Gender transition: terminology for practice (April 22, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF91] Amsterdam UMC says it offers care for transgender people with nuance, but contributes to polarization about gender itself (April 21, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF90] Cees Zweistra sees in both woke and anti-woke an expression of individualism (April 18, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF89] The arguments against the now-canceled “new transgender law” may be overstated, but not all are invalid (April 17, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF88] Helen Joyce wrote an instructive yet obscure book with TRANS (April 17, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF87] Transgender politics: striving to maintain “trans acceptance” (April 16, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF86] Trans activism increasingly experiments with transgender rights, threatening original rights (April 16, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF85] Valentijn de Hingh and the (self-claimed) rights of the frontline transactivist (April 16, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF84] Separating gender dysphoria from gender incongruence is essential to the legal position of transgender people (April 15, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF83] WHO lacks focus on definition of transgender, creates ambiguity with term “experienced gender” (April 15, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF82] Gender non-contendedness: a new concept for gender theory (April 13, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF81] The Genderbread Person is widely used in education, but lacks a scientific basis (April 12, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF80] Alex Byrne and Richard Dawkins see problems with the term “sex assigned at birth” that are not there (April 12, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF79] Meme criticizing trans acceptance can only be parried by admitting that it sometimes makes sense (April 11)
[AGTRT-BF78] New investigation into transgender care scandal in UK: ‘thousands of children abandoned’ (April 11, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF77] Vatican contradicts itself on “gender theory” (April 10, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF76] Science still struggles with gender, self-identification is not everything (April 9, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF75] Dutch language falls short of gender theory, and must be expanded to include male and female (April 9, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF74] Butler vs. Rowling is the public version of Dembroff vs. Byrne (April 8, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF73] Who is afraid of gender? Judith Butler is apparently “afraid of gender”! (April 7, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF72] D66’s striking arrogance on gender theory (April 5, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF71] Transgender and darts II: the importance of transition history (April 5, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF70] Transgender and darts I: medical and psychological Holland’s turn now (April 4, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF69] In search of a theory of gender identity (April 3, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF68] Informal Gender Theory (IGT) makes gender a matter of how you feel, not how another should see you (March 29, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF67] Kathleen Stock presents gender-critical arguments for “a woman is an adult human female” (March 27, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF66] Leaked WPATH files show significant doubt among medical professionals about gender transition (March 25, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF65] Freud and psychoanalysis can play a role in theoretical sexology with adaptation to modern gender theory (March 22, 2014)
[AGTRT-BF64] In essentialism, gender identity is not necessarily denied (March 20, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF63] Rach Cosker-Rowland examines possible links between gender identity and gender categorization (March 19, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF62] For now, the concept of gender identity provides more questions than answers, but concept engineering offers perspective here as well (March 15, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF61] The fitting treatment account (FTA) of Rach Cosker-Rowland has value for the concept engineering of formal gender (March 13, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF60] The battle between Rowling and Willoughby in 12 points (March 11, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF59] Formal gender theory (FGT) as a starting point for theoretical sexology (March 7, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF58] Pargender theory: a new strand of theoretical sexology (March 6, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF57] Gender theory abstracts from sexuality, offering opportunities for new theorizing about sexuality (March 5, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF56] How can concept engineering of the concept of formal gender help eliminate polarization in the debate? (March 1, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF55] The ICE method monitors the consistency of the overall argument when a definition of gender is changed (Feb. 29, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF54] A change in the definition of gender must be firmly justified with ICE (Feb. 28, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF53] Kirk-Gianinni’s work has a binary premise, and that seems to be a disadvantage (Feb. 27, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF52] Arnout Jaspers lashes out at woke, but needs to phrase his criticism more carefully (Feb. 26, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF51] Cameron Domenico Kirk-Gianinni presents alternative to ICE: decremental concept engineering (Feb. 25, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF50] Not everyone will be waiting for the ICE methodology in discussions about gender (Feb. 24, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF49] Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini: another step in the concept engineering of gender (Feb. 20, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF48] Primary gender identity is about whether we feel male, female or neutral (Feb. 19, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF47] Primary and secondary gender identity distinction makes room for androgyny (Feb. 16, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF46] The fact that gender is no longer solely defined physically is progress, but it should not be allowed to become pervasive (Feb. 15, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF45] Battle exchange between Sunak and Starmer on “What is a Woman?”(Feb. 13, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF44] From TERF to TEFC: fundamentalist Christians must also be critically questioned about their definition of physical gender (Feb. 5, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF43] TERF supporters should be asked more often what definition of physical gender they use (Feb. 3, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF42] How can the concept of bodily gender be concretely applied in gender theory? (Feb. 2, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF41] The concept of physical gender better captures the complexity of biological sex (Jan. 30, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF40] What lessons can the Netherlands learn from the Phoenix case? A comparison between Jo Phoenix and Laurens Buijs (Jan. 29, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF39] Professor Jo Phoenix was bullied out for gender-critical views, judge taps university (Jan. 28, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF38] Understanding more about how the concept of gender has changed over time is helpful in discussions now (Jan. 27, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF37] Marcus Dib is transsexual but not transgender: what does this mean for gender theory? (Jan. 26, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF36] Essentialist thinking about gender is especially evident among feminists and Christians (Jan. 25, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF35] Gender-critical feminists are not necessarily against transgender people (Jan. 24, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF34] What conditions must moderate gender theories satisfy? (Jan. 22, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF33] Feminists and trans women are allies rather than enemies: a rejoinder to Caroline Franssen of FORSID (Jan. 10, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF32] What does a gender theory look like that takes moderate positions on the transgender phenomenon? (Jan. 4, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF31] Is dialogue about transgender really that difficult now, or does each side feel too good to talk to the other? (Jan. 3, 2024)
[AGTRT-BF30] Paradoxical support: Extinction Rebellion helps PVV, and trans movement helps anti-trans activism (Dec. 21, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF29] Proposed law on criminalizing “homogenization” now includes gender, leading to confusion (Dec. 20, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF28] Our search for a middle-of-the-road gender theory has led us into a curious two-front war (Dec. 12, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF27] Additional terminology for gender theory: self-perceived sex and gender (Dec. 11, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF26] Progressive movements in the Netherlands play into the hands of political opponents themselves (Dec. 5, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF25] Utrecht University says it wants to protect transgender people, but only plays into the hands of radical gender-critical voices (Dec. 2, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF24] The complaints of the Dutch TERFs do not change their backward position on gender (Nov. 28, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF23] The Dutch TERFs of the VOORZIJ Foundation maintain outdated positions on gender (Nov. 27, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF22] Essentialist thinking about gender is often paradoxical and unreasonable, but it can also be moderate (Nov. 21, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF21] Our middle-of-the-road approach to gender is the middle of seven flavors of gender theory (Nov. 13, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF20] What is gender anyway, and why is biological sex not sufficient? (Nov. 10, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF19] Roman Catholic Church has more diversity of views on gender than one might think (Nov. 10, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF18] A new transgender law is indeed needed (Nov. 2, 2023]
[AGTRT-BF17] There is very little about the new transgender law in the election manifestos (Nov. 1, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF16] The Netherlands needs a gender-critical movement (Oct. 29, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF15] Diversity of views: not redundant even for gender studies in the Netherlands (Oct. 27, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF14] If a trans-inclusive notion of gender does not exist in theory, why do we want it in practice? (Oct. 26, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF13] Who is bullying whom? Discussion between De Sutter and Sunak on transgender is clouded by unclear definitions (Oct. 25, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF12] Transactivism preaches inclusion to mask a systematic practice of exclusion (Oct. 9, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF11] Non-binary gender through the lens of formal gender theory (Oct. 5, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF10] Comment on Bracke & Paternotte (2018): the pot calling the kettle black (Oct. 3, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF9] Lack of diversity in gender studies hinders open discussion (Sept. 28, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF8] Why gender science may pay more attention to formal gender (Sept. 26, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF7] FVD rightly sees problems with transgender treatments in children, but motion will not solve them (Sept. 23, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF6] A scientist putting a political spin on gender theory, is that right or wrong? (Sept. 22, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF5] Nothing new under the sun? A false argument for the acceptance of transgendering (Sept. 19, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF4] Belgian Deputy Prime Minister Petra de Sutter unconvincing about transgenders in chess (Sept. 18, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF3] Trans inclusive sport does not mean trans women must be allowed everywhere (Sept. 11, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF2] Polarization around read-alouds with drag queens demands response from LGBT community (Sept. 3, 2023)
[AGTRT-BF1] Denying the biological reality of male and female only encourages transphobia (Aug. 23, 2023)