Applying Butler to Transgender Identity

Read one of the editorial pieces that the New York Times has published in their series Transgender Lives: Your Stories (at http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/storywall/transgender-today). What can Butler’s theory offer us in making sense of gender transformation? How might the gender binary shape the experience of people who identify as transgendered? Can you think of how it might form, define, and reproduce transgender identity?