Category: Formal Gender Theory
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![[AGTRT-BF48] Primary gender identity is about whether we feel male, female or neutral](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/e0b88-img_7321-1.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF48] Primary gender identity is about whether we feel male, female or neutral
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Our research team (AGTRT) is developing two new gender theories side by side: Androgyny Based Gender Theory (ABGT) and Formal Gender Theory (FGT). FGT focuses on the concept of gender and exactly how it has evolved over time in science and beyond. FGT aims to clarify…
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![[AGTRT-BF47] The distinction between primary and secondary gender identity makes room for androgyny](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/88166-img_7279.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF47] The distinction between primary and secondary gender identity makes room for androgyny
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In gender theory, the notion ofgender identity plays a leading role. A person’s gender identity is the gender that a person ascribes to himself, where, according to our formal gender theory (FGT), one can choose from male, female and neutral. In addition to gender identity, there…
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![[AGTRT-BF46] That gender is no longer solely defined physically is progress, but should not be allowed to spill over](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/67759-img_7268-1.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF46] That gender is no longer solely defined physically is progress, but should not be allowed to spill over
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In blogs AGTRT-BF41 and AGTRT-BF42, we introduced the notion of bodily gender. This is a notion that can take into account the various definitions of a male or female (or neutral) body in circulation, from morphological to biological. Physical gender, moreover, can change across place and…
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![[AGTRT-BF45] Battle exchange between Sunak and Starmer over “what is a woman?”](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/d8b09-img_7258-1.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF45] Battle exchange between Sunak and Starmer over “what is a woman?”
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Last week, gender theory hit the news in the United Kingdom once again, with the remarkable accusation by PM Rishi Sunak that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer would not even be able to define what a woman is. Starmer would now believe that in some cases…
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![[AGTRT-BF44] From TERF to TEFC: fundamentalist Christians must also be critically questioned about their definition of bodily gender](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/d2e59-img_7180-1.png)
[AGTRT-BF44] From TERF to TEFC: fundamentalist Christians must also be critically questioned about their definition of bodily gender
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In addition to the anti-trans feminists (TERFs), another group has gone on a crusade against transgender people: anti-trans Christians. We call these TEFCs: Trans-Exclusionary Fundamentalist Christians (see AGTRT-BF36). At first glance, Christians and feminists do not have much in common. But anyone who looks closely will…
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![[AGTRT-BF43] TERF supporters should be asked more often what definition of bodily gender they use](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/5561b-img_7147-1.png)
[AGTRT-BF43] TERF supporters should be asked more often what definition of bodily gender they use
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team We have covered TERF ideology in previous blogs: the ideology of radical feminists who oppose transgenderism (see AGTRT-BF23, AGTRT-BF24 and AGTRT-BF33). Read more about the TERF ideology: The Dutch TERFs of the VOORZIJ Foundation maintain outdated positions on gender TERF ideology comes in different forms. At…