Gender Identity

Cisgender, transgender. Genderqueer, genderfluid, agender, bigender, ... What is gender? What is gender identity? What are all these terms about? Workshops on gender identity aim to explore the different aspects of the gender identity of participants, their intersectionalities, and the possibly subtle shifts of their gender identity over time.

  • Teacher training on accompanying LGBTIQA+ students: a pending task

    26/01/2025 - 10:00

    The trans law includes an entire section on measures in the field of education that requires education administrations and universities to train teachers in sexual and gender diversity, but it does not appear that this specialisation exists to date.

  • Third gender marker or decertification of sex/gender?

    29/08/2024 - 09:57

    Adding an additional option to the gender markers on documents would mean accepting a hierarchy that is worth questioning. The author of this text, whose case has opened a crack in the Foreigners' Registry, reflects on the possibilities of a future without gender checkboxes. 

  • Mourning my trans/queer lives not lived. For Alex, La Rigby, and Alana

    30/11/2023 - 16:19

    ALEX

    Alex, my five- or six-year-old gender-bender. They would have liked to have been able to play with their gender, but they were too scared.

    Most of all, they would have liked not to have to go to their first day of school as a boy. Maybe as a girl, as a gender-bender, as depicted in this picture.

  • Introducing the Genderbread Person v6.0

    22/10/2023 - 17:05

    The Genderbread Person has been around for quite a while as a nice tool to explain gender, sex, and sexual orientation. The website https://www.itspronouncedmetrosexual.com/ has as latest version v4.0, which is from 2017, and which I feel falls short on several aspects. This is why I created version 5.0 in December 2022, and now I created this slightly improved version – version 6.0. I am aware that it will fall short on several aspects, but I feel I can explain my own gender and attraction much better using this version than version 4.0.

  • A trans inclusive education in gender equality

    02/09/2023 - 18:48

    Too often, gender equality is interpreted only as equality between (cis) men and (cis) women. Binary trans people, let alone non-binary, gender fluid, or agender people, are not imagined. The 'T' in LGBTIQA+ (both 'Q' - queer - and 'A' - asexual and/or aromantic - are usually omitted) is relegated to sexual diversity education. Only, the 'T' - trans - has much to do with gender identity and little to do with sexuality.