Further, Butler argues that the working out of one's sexual identity is actually fraught with anxiety. She remarks: “ to be a certain gender need not mean possessing a certain sexuality; it may even mean non-sexuality.” Butler poses a few crucial questions that undermine traditional notions of gender:

1. “Is there ‘a' gender which persons are said to have , or is it an essential attribute that a person is said to be , as implied in the question ‘What gender are you?'?

2. When feminist theorists claim that gender is the cultural interpretation of sex or that gender is culturally constructed, what is the manner or mechanism of this construction?

3. If gender is constructed, could it be constructed differently, or does its constructedness imply some form of social determinism, foreclosing the possibility of agency and transformation?

4. Does ‘construction' suggest that certain laws generate gender differences along universal axes of sexual difference?

5. How and where does the construction of gender take place?

6. What sense can we make of a construction that cannot assume a human constructor prior to that construction?”