| Sumario: | In Green's works, she challenges binary gender and its use in the regulation of subjects, demonstrating how Jewish ritual objects can be used in diverse ways by diverse people to meet a variety of needs that need not be pre-determined according to the norms of binary gender. As political scientist Paisley Currah and scholar of law Tara Mulqueen explain, "The notion that one's classification as male or female will not change is such a widely held belief that gender classification has been part of state practices of recognition since the earliest days of modern state formations." We might conclude then that if a person's gender cannot be securitized - if their sex or gender does not fit into the model put forward by the state - then they cannot be understood by the state as proper subjects and their existence may even be cast as a threat to the state itself. 6 In the DSM-5, the core component of a gender dysphoria diagnosis is that the person has "a marked incongruence between the gender they have been assigned to (usually at birth, referred to as natal gender) and their experienced/expressed gender.".
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