Category: Formal Gender Theory
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![[AGTRT-BF90] Cees Zweistra sees in both woke and anti-woke an expression of individualism](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-05-05-at-09.28.39.png)
[AGTRT-BF90] Cees Zweistra sees in both woke and anti-woke an expression of individualism
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Cees Zweistra’s recent book is called Woke theater: How we escape from the grip of woke and anti-woke (2023). A smooth title that immediately indicates what the author is getting at: an interpretation of woke and anti-woke that invites one to seek a third alternative that…
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![[AGTRT-BF89] The arguments against the now-discontinued “new transgender law” may be overstated, but not all are invalid](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-17-at-15.38.42-1.png)
[AGTRT-BF89] The arguments against the now-discontinued “new transgender law” may be overstated, but not all are invalid
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team In the opinion piece Blocking Transgender Bill by Lower House does not help emancipation move forward (archive.ph) of April 15, Marijke Naezer, Renée Römkens, Toine Lagro-Jansen and Iva Bicanic write about arguments raised against the bill for the new atransgender law. This piece, by the way,…
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![[AGTRT-BF88] Helen Joyce wrote an instructive yet unclear book with TRANS](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-17-at-09.09.18-1.png)
[AGTRT-BF88] Helen Joyce wrote an instructive yet unclear book with TRANS
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team The book TRANS: When Ideolgy Meets Reality (2021) by Helen Joyce was published in hard cover in July 2021 and the paperback version in March 2022. The book was quickly very successful and became the book of the year for a number of media outlets. At…
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![[AGTRT-BF87] Transgender politics: striving to maintain “trans acceptance”](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/screenshot-2024-04-16-at-15.17.05.png)
[AGTRT-BF87] Transgender politics: striving to maintain “trans acceptance”
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team For incomprehensible reasons, transgender activists (transactivists) want to give the impression that it is completely unnecessary, stupid and foolish to even consider for a second the arguments put forward by opponents of their positions (see also AGTRT-BF12 and AGTRT-BF85). Read more about the arrogance of transactivism:Valentijn…
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![[AGTRT-BF86] Trans activism increasingly experiments with transgender rights, endangering original rights](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/risk.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF86] Trans activism increasingly experiments with transgender rights, endangering original rights
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team There are several organizations and groups that claim to stand up for transgender interests and rights. For example Stonewall but also closer to home the Transgender Network Netherlands (TNN). But this is a careless and difficult claim to maintain, because it too easily assumes the accuracy…
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![[AGTRT-BF85] Valentijn de Hingh and the (self-claimed) rights of the frontline transactivist](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/img_8013.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF85] Valentijn de Hingh and the (self-claimed) rights of the frontline transactivist
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team It is difficult to move in the gender debate without coming into contact with what we refer to as the self-claimed rights of the frontline trans activist. We use the term frontline transactivism because we would like to retain the term transactivism for people who reasonably…