A popular Vlogbrother, this man believes that gender and sexuality cannot be defined by our current set of vocabulary.

*After all the dispute, this term had to REMAIN WITHIN BRACKETS throughout the United Nations' NGO Platform on the Status of Women in order to signal that it is still disputed language and that there is no agreement on appropriate use of the term. (187-18

This is the theory of individuals who "seek a more substantial equality for women" (174).

Judith Butler quotes Rosi Braidotti's book, Metamorphoses, in her article. Braidotti thinks that "both sexuality and sexual difference are so central to the constitution of the subject that they cannot be eradicated merely" (Braidotti 38) by this.

Something that is unspeakable. According to Butler, the 'status that is not one".

The concept that there are inherent differences between males and females that have the ability to sustain the differences they seek to explain was developed by this scholar.

After all the dispute, this term was ALLOWED TO STAY in the United Nations' NGO Platform on the Status of Women. (187)

*This term is "not a given, not a premise, not a basis on which to build a feminism; it is not that which we have already encountered and come to know; rather as a question" (178).

These are not the same as heterosexual practices. (199)

This is the method through which Otherness attempts to enter language from the sidelines in ways "that cannot always be detected" according to Butler

This researcher is concerned that gender roles displayed in media lead to narrower categorization and continuation of limiting gender roles.

According to La Repubblica, in the United States the number of genders has leaped to this number.
BONUS: Name them all. (183)

This perspective seeks to standardize all terms in regards to sexuality, however the presence of this perspective only adds to its "enduring force and efficacy" (177).

Butler does "not support a developmental model in which first and foremost there is homosexual love, and then that love becomes repressed, and then heterosexuality emerges as a consequence" (199-200). However, Butler finds it interesting that her account

Something that can be done to a term to contest its viability and detract from its effect, causing it to become "disputed language"

These two women have published a vast array of works discussing the concept that gender construction is perpetuated across generations by social and cultural performances and depictions of gender.

We view 'gender' as a threat and fear that homosexuality implies the proliferation of genders based on the notion that homosexuals have in some sense departed from their sex. We believe in becoming homosexual, they cease to be men or women and so gender b

These terms can be argued to be "premised on the exclusion of women, of people of colour... and wrought along class lines and with strong colonial interests" (179).

*"Feminism is said to have gender as its object of inquiry" but these are said to have "sex and sexuality as its 'proper' object" (181).

This is why the term "universal" is contested, the reason that universality is not actual all-encompassing and has differing definitions for different groups

*Known for her work in gender studies and her discussion of performativity, this woman believes that by ritualizing and normalizing gender ideas, we create the need to continually legitimize and perform prescribed roles.

We are a committee which believes that "the meaning of the word gender has evolved as differentiated from the word sex to express the reality that women's and men's roles and status are socially constructed and subject to change. The concept of gender is

This individual "makes clear that sexual difference is not a fact, not a bedrock of any sorts, and not the recalcitrant 'real' of Lacanian parlance" (177).

This theorist suggested that homosexuality and gender are not only separable but persist in a mutually exclusive tension in which queer sexualities aspire to a utopian life beyond gender. (184)

The reason for the Vatican's dismissal of lesbianism and the term's subsequent bracketing and being described as "anti-human"