Tommy and the Hawks Support Butler

Two different articles from the New York Times support what
Butler writes about gender:

One article, talking about how males of certain species of bird
approximate female characteristics (in this case, to attract other
males in order to stay warm) brought to mind what Butler said about
gender not being binary. "Assuming for the moment the stability
of binary sex, it does not follow that the construction of "men"
will accrure exclusively to the bodies of males or that "women" will
interpret only female bodies" (p. 9).

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/science/male-hawks-in-france-find-more-than-their-feminine-side.html

More apt was a quote I associated with a story of a man from
a traditional Itailan family who has made a living from his
impersonation of Judy Garland: "If one "is" a woman. that is surely
not all one is; the term fails to be exhaustive, not because a pregendered
"person" transcends the specific paraphernaila of its gender,
but because gender is not always constituted coherently or
consistently ....and because gender intersects with racial, class, ethnic,
sexual... identities" (p. 4).

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/nyregion/judy-garland-impersonator-tommy-femia-of-brooklyn.html?pagewanted=all