genderbeleid.nl

About this site

Genderbeleid.nl documents how gender identity entered Dutch policy: through legislation, education, youth care, sports, shelters and statistics — and which lobbying network is driving it. Factual, with sources and timelines.

What you’ll find on genderbeleid.nl

• The Transgender Act and the X-passport
• Core attainment targets, GSAs and social transition at school
• Gender as an interpretation of adolescent distress in youth care
• NOC*NSF and the sports policies of international federations
• Women’s shelters, the prison system and placement by identity or by sex
• Who is pushing the policy: US corporate money and the Dutch gender lobby
• Statistics Netherlands, the Personal Records Database and the question: where does the Netherlands stand internationally?

For whom

For Members of Parliament, civil servants, journalists and citizens who want to see how policy choices on gender were made — and who is behind them.

Related within the network: zelfidentificatie.nl for the legal dossier, conversiewet.nl on the conversion law and transbeleid.nl for policy analysis.

Part of the gender network

genderbeleid.nl is one of more than forty specialist sites in the Dutch-language gender network of Stichting Genderinfo i.o. Every site in the network covers one subject in depth: from science and medical facts to care, legislation, the public debate and support for specific audiences. That way you always find the site that answers your question most sharply. Note: most network sites are in Dutch.

Explore further: browse the category broad overviews, science and medical context, care and policy, society and debate or community and audiences — or go to the full network overview and the external resources beyond the network.