Understanding the gendered identity of the body as performative means that we regard it as having “no ontological status apart from the various acts that constitute its reality.” As such, the idea that gender is a discursively constructed notion that is required for the purposes of disciplining sexuality. In this context, genders are neither “true” or “false,” nor “normol” or “abnormal,” but “are only produced as the truth effects of a discourse of priproduced as the truth effects of a discourse of primary and stable identity.” Moreover, gender can be understood as “an identity tenuously constituted in time instituted in exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts” an identity achived, “not a founding acts” but rather a regulated process of repetition.