The recent re-election of Donald Trump, and the subsequent re-emergence of far right and radical neoliberal ideologies in America have encouraged many of our favourite theorists and commentators to speak up. Judith Butler presents a concise and lucid commentary in The Guardian, where she considers the attempted destruction of complex gender identities in favour of a "shameless sadism [that incites] others to celebrate this version of manhood2. Gender performativity, the ways in which our performance of gender affect the world around us, are clearly very complex and very powerful, and the aggressive replacement of a perceived threat of transgender identities with a conservative, strongman masculinity built on hyperreal cliches cultivated in the 80s action films Trump loves so much is already having significant consequences for Americans.