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Gender Performance: The TransAdvocate interviews Judith Butler

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Source Summary

Judith Butler is a preeminent gender theorist and has played an extraordinarily influential role in shaping modern feminism. They’ve written extensively on gender, and her concept of gender performativity is a central theme of both modern feminism and gender theory. Butler’s essays and books include Performative Acts and Gender Constitution (1988), Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990), Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex” (1993) and Undoing Gender (2004). However, the concept of gender performativity has been used – and some would assert – abused to support a number of positions that misconstrue Butler’s work. Therefore, I wanted to ask Butler what they really think about gender and the trans experience. Along the way, Butler specifically addresses TERFs and the work of Sheila Jeffreys and Janice Raymond. Cristan Williams: You spoke about the surgical intervention many trans people undergo as a “very brave transformation.” Can

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Interpretive context

Why this article may matter

Community significance

“Gender Performance: The TransAdvocate interviews Judith Butler” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to feminism and gender politics, while also engaging transgender identity and history. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2014 at Transadvocate.com, “Gender Performance: The TransAdvocate interviews Judith Butler” provides dated evidence of how feminism and gender politics was being argued in relation to transgender identity and history. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is criminal justice and public safety. It links that institutional frame to feminism and gender politics and transgender identity and history, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

Content analysis

Ranked themes and framings

Rank 1 is the dominant inferred theme or framing. Parent labels identify broader theme families; the relationship key beneath the diagram explains the line styles used for hierarchy, same-family relationships, overlap, and separate-but-related themes.

Themes

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Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
100%
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
73%
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Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
40%
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Media, rhetoric, and discourseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
31%
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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
29%
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Religion and moralityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
29%

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Criminal justice and public safety
100%

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Granular comparative context

How “Feminism and gender politics” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 1 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

Relative presence by year

Peak year indexed to 100

2 2006

16 2007

2 2008

3 2009

2 2010

7 2011

9 2012

94 2013

44 2014

21 2015

21 2016

43 2017

7 2018

3 2019

3 2020

3 2021

1 2024

1 2025

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Documented circulation and reception

45 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 43 distinct domains. The dated evidence currently spans 2014–2017. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.

46distinct source records documented

43distinct referring domains

0best available scholarly cited-by count

0books or volumes documented

45references retained by the source publication

2014–2017observed years in dated evidence

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Source-held references45

Links inside the Collective1

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Shows what has actually been checked

Publisher-held referencesChecked · August 31, 2026

Scholarly indexesChecked · August 31, 2026

Book and volume searchNotchecked

Public-web searchNotconfigured

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Documented references over time

Dated source evidence currently stored by the Collective

24 2014

14 2015

6 2016

2 2017

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Cristan Williams · collective-demo.transhouston.com · August 20, 2015

Specifically, the TransAdvocate focuses on watchdogging anti-transgender media tropes and misinformation that gains social currency. We’re willing to do what it takes to expose hate — especially when hate is being peddled as reason, faith, or journalism. We here at the TrasnAdvocate generally won’t pull our punches and we are…