Interestingly, she is also responsible for the currently fashionable idea that gender is distinct from sex, and that one is not born with a gender. This had no

Interestingly, she is also responsible for the currently fashionable idea that gender is distinct from sex, and that one is not born with a gender. This had no basis in science of course, but people repeat it now under the assumption that it has always been the case. They have always been synonymous and she literally just made it up and started telling people that gender is performative. Judith Butler latched on to this and took it to extremes with Critical Gender Theory and attacking the “patriarchy”, and started teaching it at Berkeley, which popularized it in the 90s and 2000s. Why anyone listened to these people is a mystery to me.