Category: Formal Gender Theory
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![[AGTRT-BF24] The complaints of the Dutch TERFs do not change their outdated position on gender](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/edd01-img_6464.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF24] The complaints of the Dutch TERFs do not change their outdated position on gender
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Our blog AGTRT-BF23, which qualifies supporters of VOORZIJ as TERF, was not welcomed by VOORZIJ, as we can tell from their complaints on social media. We seem to need to understand that for them it is not about gender but about sex. But transgendering is thus…
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![[AGTRT-BF23] The Dutch TERFs of the VOORZIJ Foundation maintain outdated positions on gender](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/c9773-img_6460-1.png)
[AGTRT-BF23] The Dutch TERFs of the VOORZIJ Foundation maintain outdated positions on gender
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team The gender debate is complicated by participants who, for reasons difficult to understand, stubbornly cling to outdated positions. This happens in the Roman Catholic Church, in the Russian Orthodox Church, but also in feminist circles among the adherents of so-called trans-exclusionary radical feminism (or TERF). This…
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![[AGTRT-BF22] Essentialist thinking about gender is often paradoxical and unreasonable, but it can also be moderate](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cf763-female-brain-male-brain.jpeg)
[AGTRT-BF22] Essentialist thinking about gender is often paradoxical and unreasonable, but it can also be moderate
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Essentialism about gender amounts to subscribing to the following four principles: Essentialism is often seen as old-fashioned in progressive circles, but it is far from gone. Indeed, we find it in a wide variety of movements. On the one hand, these include the Roman Catholic Church,…
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![[AGTRT-BF21] Our middle-of-the-road approach to gender is the middle of seven flavors of gender theory](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ae830-img_6324-1.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF21] Our middle-of-the-road approach to gender is the middle of seven flavors of gender theory
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In AGTRT-9, we listed a series of versions of gender theory and arranged them according to increasing transinclusiveness. Although instructive, said overview does not provide sufficiently useful names for the versions yet to be designed. But such names are easy to come up with if we…
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![[AGTRT-BF20] What is gender anyway, and why is biological sex not sufficient?](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/82555-screenshot-2023-11-10-at-15.40.18.png)
[AGTRT-BF20] What is gender anyway, and why is biological sex not sufficient?
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Version 2 of this blog appeared on April 9, 2024Version 1 can be read back here Structure of this blog 1. Introduction It is unfortunate that the discussion of gender is so often flattened to the question of whether or not there are more than two…
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![[AGTRT-BF19] The Roman Catholic Church has more diversity of views on gender than one might think](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/34343-img_6303-1.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF19] The Roman Catholic Church has more diversity of views on gender than one might think
Jan Bergstra & Laurens Buijs Amsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In the Roman Catholic Church (RCC), gender theory is a major topic that is mostly dismissed, but there are other voices. A striking example emerges in an interview in The Pillar with Cardinal Eijk. Cardinal Eijk argues that there is a multiplicity of gender theories…