Category: Formal Gender Theory
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![[AGTRT-BF18] A new transgender law is indeed needed](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/8d9e2-lawtg.jpeg)
[AGTRT-BF18] A new transgender law is indeed needed
Jan Bergstra & Laurens Buijs Amsterdam Gender Theory Research Team The election is just around the corner, but there is hardly any support for the new transgender law in the party manifestos. Only VOLT and BIJ1 make explicit their support for it. This raises the expectation that a new transgender law will not come soon.…
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![[AGTRT-BF17] Very little can be found about the new transgender law in election manifestos](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/8540f-mv.jpeg)
[AGTRT-BF17] Very little can be found about the new transgender law in election manifestos
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Until recently, a new transgender law was based on co-essentialism, or the idea that biology plays no role in determining gender, and the even stronger assertion that everyone gets to determine their own gender. We wondered about the fate of the transgender bill in current party…
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![[AGTRT-BF16] The Netherlands needs a gender-critical movement](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2b5ef-gc40._v1_.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF16] The Netherlands needs a gender-critical movement
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In the UK, we are currently seeing the emergence of a gender critical movement that cuts across political parties. The cause of this is increasing resistance to the view that gender (of a person) is nothing more, or different, than a result of self-identification (by that…
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![[AGTRT-BF15] Diversity of views: not redundant for gender studies in the Netherlands either](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/4bfd8-screenshot-2023-10-27-at-11.56.38.png)
[AGTRT-BF15] Diversity of views: not redundant for gender studies in the Netherlands either
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team (AGTRT). It is important for the preservation of academic freedom and pluralistic debate that opinions can differ with all good will. But this insight seems to be wasted on professionals in Dutch gender studies. While worldwide gender theory is a hot topic and people are fighting…
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![[AGTRT-BF14] If a trans-inclusive notion of gender does not exist in theory, why do we want it in practice?](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/6cb06-img_6106-1.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF14] If a trans-inclusive notion of gender does not exist in theory, why do we want it in practice?
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Tomas Bogardus describes in his publication Why the trans inclusion problem cannot be solved (2022) details why there can be no trans-inclusive notion of gender, at least not under the conditions prescribed by recent gender theory à la Bettcher, Jenkins, Barnes, Dembroff and others. These conditions…
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![[AGTRT-BF13] Who is bullying whom? Discussion between De Sutter and Sunak on transgender is clouded by unclear definitions](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/6dffd-img_6102.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF13] Who is bullying whom? Discussion between De Sutter and Sunak on transgender is clouded by unclear definitions
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Belgian Deputy Prime Minister De Sutter and British Prime Minister Sunak accuse each other of bullying in a discussion about transgender people. This is evident from the following quote from The Guardian on Oct. 6: “Belgium’s deputy prime minister, who ranks as one of Europe’s most…