The Correlation Of Sex And Gender, By Judith Butler

When it comes to the idea of sex and gender, and how with the age of modern medicine, people around the world may change their own lives for the better as they change their sex to the gender they associate with. Finally feeling the freedom of being in the body that they wished for, yet this a decision that should be taken by the participating, rather than the doctor making the procedure. Judith Butler’s writing, “Undoing Gender”, there is a story of a person whom goes through their life trying to figure out what they have become. Feeling that they are one thing and being told they are another when in reality, it’s the one being accused of being wrong is right. The story goes as David, being born a boy, is accidently given the circumstances

Cheryl Chase, the founder and director of the intersexed society of North America, is stated, “A child upon maturing may choose to change genders or, indeed, elect for hormonal or surgical intervention, but such decisions are justified because they are based on knowing choice”, showing the correlation between sex and gender. That once a child has identified as a gender that they see themselves as, they may ask themselves whether or not they should become what they see. It all lies on the idea that a person is what they feel as they are, not that what they are given. The Core of a person is what identifies that as person as the embodiment they see as. Butler can be seen stating, how the idea of gender overcoming sex and how the embodiment of gender is what shapes the person that is seen. When Butler speaks more on how David/Brenda identifies himself, she states, “David understands that there is a norm, a norm of how he was supposed to be, and that he has fallen short of the norm,” reviling that David knew for a large portion of his life that something wasn’t right. David is even interviewed and asked how he felt on the situation of his life, “I began to see how different I felt and was, from what I supposed to be. I looked at myself and said I don’t like this type of clothing, I don’t like the types of toys I was always being given. I mean there [was] nothing feminine about me. [I figured I was a guy] but didn’t want to admit it. I figured I didn’t want to open a can of worms.” His core feeling, the idea that he was something that he didn’t visually see, is what told him about who he really was and what he wanted to become. David had known there was a norm, and a norm that he couldn’t belong to that he wished to correct. Even as he grew and doctors, especially Money, tried to persuade him into reconsidering the operation into becoming a male, David became disgusted and