Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler It is quite extraordinary how relevant this book remained today though it was originally published 30 years ago. Of course, discussions about gender and sex in the general ( cishet ) public is probably doomed to remain infantile as always, but also in feminist circles, it appears there are still very vocal remnants of an antiquated, essentialist sort of 'feminism' that still occupies influential positions in the media, in particular those of the Anglosphere , frequently abusing this power more in the service of harming trans people than helping cis women. But even beyond that, even transgender people frequently tend to fall onto essentialist fallacies, and not just of the " transmedicalist " variety. Mind you, I'm not referring to the "born in the wrong body" cliché, as I doubt there's a single trans person that doesn't express that idea only to make gender dysphoria remo...