Category: Formal Gender Theory
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![[AGTRT-BF30] Paradoxical support: Extinction Rebellion helps the PVV, and the trans movement helps anti-trans activism](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/27732-img_6670.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF30] Paradoxical support: Extinction Rebellion helps the PVV, and the trans movement helps anti-trans activism
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In previous blogs, we have put forward the notion of paradoxical support as a way of describing the effects, intentional or otherwise, of taking extreme positions. Paradoxical support we have observed at Extinction Rebellion Netherlands (XRNL). XRNL makes a strong contribution to the PVV’s political agenda…
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![[AGTRT-BF29] The proposed law on criminalizing “gay healing” is now also about gender, and this leads to confusion](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/d22df-img_6639-1.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF29] The proposed law on criminalizing “gay healing” is now also about gender, and this leads to confusion
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Earlier this year, the Council of State (Raad van State, RvS) published an opinion on a proposal for a law criminalizing conversion acts. Conversion acts aim to change people’s sexual orientation or gender identity to the prevailing norm. This includes, for example, “homogenous healing.” The RvS…
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![[AGTRT-BF28] Our search for a middle-of-the-road gender theory has led us into a curious two-front war](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/53200-img_6550-1.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF28] Our search for a middle-of-the-road gender theory has led us into a curious two-front war
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team We with the Amsterdam Gender Theory Research Team have been searching for some time for a compromise between gender essentialism (man and woman as highly fixed) and gender co-essentialism (man and woman as highly malleable). In other words, we are looking for a Middle-of-the-Road (MotR) version…
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![[AGTRT-BF27] Additional terminology for gender theory: self-perceived sex and gender](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/60fcb-img_6549.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF27] Additional terminology for gender theory: self-perceived sex and gender
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team The American organization Do No Harm uses the following definition of biological sex: “Sex means the biological indications of male and female in the context of reproductive potential or capacity, such as sexual chromosomes, naturally occurring sex hormones, gonads, and nonambiguous internal and external genitalia present…
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![[AGTRT-BF26] Progressive movements in the Netherlands play into the hands of political opponents themselves](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/4d4bd-img_6517.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF26] Progressive movements in the Netherlands play into the hands of political opponents themselves
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In our previous blog AGTRT-BF25, we discussed what we felt were unfair qualifications from the Studium Generale of Utrecht University toward opponents of the proposed new transgender law. In our opinion, such qualifications only end up supporting opposition to this law. The habit of progressive movements…
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![[AGTRT-BF25] Utrecht University says it wants to protect transgender people, but only plays into the hands of radical gender-critical voices](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/0d546-img_6473-1.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF25] Utrecht University says it wants to protect transgender people, but only plays into the hands of radical gender-critical voices
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Utrecht University’s Studium Generale held an event called Transgender Rights Under Pressure on Nov. 29. In the announcement we read: “The ‘antigender movement’ is becoming more and more fierce. She opposes the new Transgender Act, which is supposed to make it easier to change your gender.”…