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[...]I think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender. Some want to be [[gender-free]], but others want to be free really to be a gender that is crucial to who they are.

[...]Gender Trouble was written about 24 years ago, and at that time I did not think well enough about trans issues. Some trans people thought that in claiming that gender is performative that I was saying that it is all a fiction, and that a person’s felt sense of gender was therefore “unreal.” That was never my intention. I sought to expand our sense of what gender realities could be.<ref name="Williams">{{Cite web |title=Gender Performance: The TransAdvocate interviews Judith Butler |last=Williams |first=Cristan |work=TransAdvocate |date= |access-date=4 May 2020 |url= https://www.transadvocate.com/gender-performance-the-transadvocate-interviews-judith-butler_n_13652.htm}}</ref>}}

[...]''Gender Trouble' was written about 24 years ago, and at that time I did not think well enough about trans issues. Some trans people thought that in claiming that gender is performative that I was saying that it is all a fiction, and that a person’s felt sense of gender was therefore “unreal.” That was never my intention. I sought to expand our sense of what gender realities could be.<ref name="Williams">{{Cite web |title=Gender Performance: The TransAdvocate interviews Judith Butler |last=Williams |first=Cristan |work=TransAdvocate |date= |access-date=4 May 2020 |url= https://www.transadvocate.com/gender-performance-the-transadvocate-interviews-judith-butler_n_13652.htm}}</ref>}}

{{quote|I am enjoying the world of 'they.' When I wrote ''Gender Trouble'', there was no category for 'non-binary' – but now I don't see how I cannot be in that category.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Judith Butler calls out transphobia as “one of the dominant strains of fascism in our times” |last=Bollinger |first=Alex |work=LGBTQ Nation |date=7 September 2021 |access-date=11 September 2021 |url= https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/09/judith-butler-calls-transphobia-one-dominant-strains-fascism-times/}}</ref>}}

==Selected works==