Category: Formal Gender Theory
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![[AGTRT-BF6] A scientist putting a political spin on gender theory, is that right or wrong?](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/c4a2a-screenshot-2023-09-22-at-18.25.22.png)
[AGTRT-BF6] A scientist putting a political spin on gender theory, is that right or wrong?
Jan Bergstra and Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In NRC in March this year, UvA professor Jan Willem Duyvendak criticized Laurens Buijs, one of the authors of this blog. According to Duyvendak, Buijs would have been guided by political motives in his criticism of non-binarity. The intended implication, we suspect, is that such a…
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![[AGTRT-BF5] Nothing new under the sun? A false argument for the acceptance of transgendering](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/8bc63-genderwars.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF5] Nothing new under the sun? A false argument for the acceptance of transgendering
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In March of this year, UvA professor Jan Willem Duyvendak wrote a critique in NRC of the remarks about non-binarity made by one of the authors of this blog, Laurens Buijs. In that piece, Duyvendak gives an argument often used against critics of the emancipation of…
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![[AGTRT-BF4] Belgian Deputy Prime Minister Petra de Sutter unconvincing about transgenders in chess](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/e577c-chess.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF4] Belgian Deputy Prime Minister Petra de Sutter unconvincing about transgenders in chess
Jan Bergstra and Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team NRC recently published an interview with Petra de Sutter, the deputy prime minister of Belgium who is herself a trans woman. In the interview, she simplistically takes a position on the role of trans women in sports, showing, in our view, little interest in the issues…
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![[AGTRT-BF3] Trans inclusive sport does not mean trans women must be allowed everywhere](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/8120b-tokyo-olympics-swimming-representational-reuters-640.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF3] Trans inclusive sport does not mean trans women must be allowed everywhere
Jan Bergstra and Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In a recent opinion piece in the Volkskrant, Claire Slingerland argues that transgender persons should simply be allowed in “sport,” arguing, importantly, that they – especially transgender women – would have no advantages over cis women. This argument is not strong. In 2022, World Aquatics (swimming…
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![[AGTRT-BF2] Polarization around read-alouds with drag queens prompts response from LGBT community](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/aa8e9-screenshot-2023-09-03-at-11.37.48.png)
[AGTRT-BF2] Polarization around read-alouds with drag queens prompts response from LGBT community
Yesterday, for the second time in the Netherlands, there was an uproar surrounding a “reading hour” by drag queens, this time in Leiden. These reading aloud hours (so-called Drag Queen Story Hours) are increasingly organized in Dutch libraries, following the American example. The goal is to promote reading and diversity among children. In April, there…
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![[AGTRT-BF1] Denying the biological reality of male and female only encourages transphobia](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/6f5a9-austin-university.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF1] Denying the biological reality of male and female only encourages transphobia
This week I posted a couple of polls on my X-account on the topic of transgender. Significant were the responses to the question, “Is a trans woman a woman?” As many as 2,908 people filled out a response, the vast majority of whom filled in “No, never.” While this sample is of course anything but…