Kate Bornstein
American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Katherine Vandam "Kate" Bornstein (born March 15, 1948) is an American writer. She lives in New York City with her partner Barbara Carrellas.
In 2012 she made a video for Dan Savage's It Gets Better Project. In August 2012 she was diagnosed with lung cancer.[1]
Life
Bornstein was born in New Jersey to a Jewish family.[2] She joined the Church of Scientology in 1970, and left in 1981.[3]
Bornstein does not feel male or female. She was born male and had sex reassignment surgery in 1986.[4] She has written several books about gender; the best-known is Gender Outlaw.
Media
In 2013 a documentary about Bornstein called Kate Bornstein is a Queer & Pleasant Danger was made.
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