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Essay / A Girl Like Me: The Story of Gwen Araujo' - 1201
As previously stated, Butler describes an area in which social norms of gender, sex, and desire all participate. This has been constructed through formal and informal means that attempt to “normalize” people who do not conform to the social norm. In an interview, Butler states that one of these institutionalized methods is psychiatric normalization, initially seen as going against the social norm in terms of sex and gender and illness, leading psychiatrists to try to “normalize” their patients, this procedure has now ended but other informal methods such as harassment still exist. From there, Butler aspires to a new idea of gender, one that becomes a reality, less violent and that breaks the conventions and stereotypes put in place by social norms. This idea of a less violent idea of gender relates to Butler's notion that in order to progress in feminist theory, the feminine gender must transform. Digression, not violence, within feminism can still be identified, in 1997 feminist Sheila Jeffrey called transgender "deeply problematic from a feminist perspective and that transsexualism should be considered a violation of human rights”. Although this remark is not violent, it definitely disrespects women and men of gender who have not conformed to the social norm, just like Jeffrey's, but his criticism still ridicules another sexual minority. Jeffrey is