Have a glance at this well-written and concise commentary that dives into the deeper philosophical roots of the gender fluid movement, roots which are heavily intertwined with Marxism and assorted post-modern thinkers. No matter how you look at it, the message is clear: the individual is nothing but a helpless “social construct” who needs to sink into the abyss of nihilism.

This is a work so embedded in neo-Marxism it’s impossible to grasp it without accepting its collectivist and revolutionary premises. For Butler, in matters of sex and the body, nothing is as it appears, the individual has no independent existence or capacity for reason outside social and cultural forces, and even the basics of anatomy, like a penis, are just socially constructed all the way down. There is no independent, stable variable like nature or biology or evolution that can help us understand our bodies, and our sex. Everything is in our heads, and our heads are entirely created by others in the past and present:

Nature is not the ground upon which construction of gender happens. Both the material and social dimensions of the body are constructed through an array of practices, discourses, and technologies.