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One of the Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ events on international women’s day - 8 March- was a panel conversation on the ‘sense and nonsense of sex registration’. UCERF (family law) en SIM (human rights) researcher Marjolein van den Brink was one of two speakers.

After the introduction she joined the panel, in which also prof. Berteke Waaldijk (history and gender studies) and Hannah van Wikselaar (Master student Gender studies) participated. The (online) audience could join the debate via the chat, and by answering the Mentimeter questions. Tessa de Vries (Studium Generale) moderated the session.

One of the topics of the discussion was the registration practices of the UU. Hannah van Wikselaar shared preliminary results of her research on the experiences of UU students with, and their views on the university’s registration practices. The researchers advocated a university reporting point that may help map out where and for which purposes sex is registered as well as the possibilities for individual students and staff to change their personal data. Is it possible to prevent that data that are collected because of a legal obligation are linked to other, unconnected data? What can an organisation do for people who do not feel at home in the categories used to statistically support diversity policies?