In chapter 5 ("Blind Spots: On Subconscious Sex and Gender Entitlement") of her book _Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity_, Julia Serano argues that both trans and non-trans people's gender sentiments are rooted in _subconscious sex_, "a deep-rooted understanding of what sex their bodies should be." She writes:
In chapter 5 ("Blind Spots: On Subconscious Sex and Gender Entitlement") of her book _Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity_, Julia Serano argues that both trans and non-trans people's gender sentiments are rooted in _subconscious sex_, "a deep-rooted understanding of what sex their bodies should be." She writes: