Cheryl Chase, founder and director of the Intersex Society of North America, states: “A child as he matures may choose to change his sex or, in fact, choose hormone therapy or surgery, but such decisions are justified because they are based on a conscious choice”, showing the correlation between sex and gender. That once a child has identified the gender they see themselves as, they may question whether or not they should become what they see. It all lies in the idea that a person is what he feels as he is, not what is given to him. A person's Core is what identifies them as a person like the embodiment they see. Butler can be seen stating how the idea of gender surpasses sex and how the embodiment of gender is what shapes the person who is seen. When Butler talks more about how David/Brenda identifies, he states, “David understands that there is a norm, a norm of what it should have been like, and that he failed to reach the norm,” slurring that David knew all along. much of his life that something was wrong. David is even interviewed and asked how he felt about his life situation: “I started to see how different I felt and was than I should have been. I looked at myself and said I don't like this kind of clothing, I don't like the kind of toys they always gave me. I mean, there [was] nothing feminine about me. [I thought I was a boy] but I didn't want to admit it. I figured I didn't want to open a can of worms. His deepest feeling, the idea of being something he didn't see visually, is what made him realize who he really was and what he wanted to become. David knew that there was a norm and norm that he could not belong to and that he wanted to correct. Even as he grew older and the doctors, especially Money, tried to convince him to reconsider the operation to become a boy, David was disgusted and
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