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Judith Butler

“There is no reason to assume that gender also ought to remain as two. The presumption of a binary gender system implicitly retains the belief in a mimetic relation of gender to sex whereby gender mirrors sex or is otherwise restricted by it.”

Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler
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