Beauvoir is right in this sentence because a newborn cannot define who he is at birth, but rather discovers who he is and who he will become throughout his life. Butler writes about how a child is humanized when the question "Is it a boy or a girl?" (142) is asked. The moment the question is answered is the moment the child's life is planned in advance by factors beyond his or her control. Butler also writes that ender and sex are two distinct terms where sex is how the person is born and gender is how they feel and want to be. The article tells us that gender is an activity, the act of becoming someone and in this it is a verb