We studied gender and sexuality topics during the course of the semester, and the community engagement event that I attended ties into the course. In class, we discussed Judith Butler, an American philosopher, and gender theorist. She wrote a book called Gender Trouble, where it all started. "Butler argues that gender is performative - our gender is our expressions and behaviours (rather than those expressions and behaviours being the result of some underlying gender identity). Like sexuality, gender is what you do, not who you are." (Barkers & Scheele 2016) Her idea is that not because you are born a male, it necessarily follows that you identify with or display a male gender. Some agree with Judith Butler's argument that gender is performed,
