Category: Formal Gender Theory
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![[AGTRT-BF84] Separating gender dysphoria from gender incongruence is essential to the legal position of transgender people](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/img_8009-1.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF84] Separating gender dysphoria from gender incongruence is essential to the legal position of transgender people
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team We previously reported on the confusion the World Health Organization (WHO) is sowing with their definition of transgender (see AGTRT-BF83). But there is more unclear medical jargon about gender. For example, on the Youth Aid Knowledge Platform site we find the following text: “Gender affirming trajectories…
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![[AGTRT-BF83] WHO does not have a sharp definition of transgender, and creates ambiguity with term “experienced gender”](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/screenshot-2024-04-15-at-08.56.01.png)
[AGTRT-BF83] WHO does not have a sharp definition of transgender, and creates ambiguity with term “experienced gender”
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team On WHO’s FAQ page we read this, among other things: “What is transgender and what are the main health concerns of transgender people? Transgender people share many of the same health needs as the general population, but may have other specialist health-care needs, such as gender-affirming…
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![[AGTRT-BF82] Gender non-contendedness: a new concept for gender theory](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/img_7973.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF82] Gender non-contendedness: a new concept for gender theory
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Recent research from Groningen (see the UMCG website and the publication Development of Gender Non-Contentedness During Adolescence and Early Adulthood. (2024) by Ravee, Rosmalen, Kalverdijk and Burke) led to headlines in the paper that the desire for gender reassignment surgery in most people goes away on…
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![[AGTRT-BF81] The Genderbread Person is widely used in education, but a scientific basis is lacking](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/genderkoek-1024x722-1.png)
[AGTRT-BF81] The Genderbread Person is widely used in education, but a scientific basis is lacking
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team Structure of this blog 1. Introduction The Genderbread Person is the Dutch design of the Genderbread Person by Sam Killermann. This is a drawing of a puppet of gingerbread, now used in Dutch primary schools, for example, to educate children about gender and sexuality diversity. On…
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![[AGTRT-BF80] Alex Byrne and Richard Dawkins see problems with the term “sex assigned at birth” that are not there](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/screenshot-2024-04-12-at-08.43.18.png)
[AGTRT-BF80] Alex Byrne and Richard Dawkins see problems with the term “sex assigned at birth” that are not there
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team This past week, two opinion pieces appeared in the American press expressing dissatisfaction with the term “sex assigned at birth.” On April 3, the opinion piece “The problem with saying ‘sex assigned at birth’”(archive.ph) by Alex Byrne and Carole K. Hooven in The New York Times,…
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![[AGTRT-BF79] Meme criticizing trans acceptance can only be parried by admitting that it sometimes makes sense too](https://gender-theory.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/photo-2024-03-13-18-13-29-1.jpg)
[AGTRT-BF79] Meme criticizing trans acceptance can only be parried by admitting that it sometimes makes sense too
Jan Bergstra & Laurens BuijsAmsterdam Gender Theory Research Team On socials, we saw the following meme going around: We see this meme primarily as an argument against the legally enforced acceptance of trans men as men and trans women as women. Because we believe that acceptance should be an issue in many cases, we would…