![]() ![]() Although the word "he" has been used here to refer to Bornstein prior to the sex-change surgery, Bornstein herself and many other transgender persons often prefer various newly coined gender-ambiguous pronouns such as "ze" (which substitutes for "he" or "she") and "hir" (which substitutes for "her" or "his").īornstein's books include Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Teen Suicide, My Gender Workbook, Nearly Roadkill, Kate Bornstein Is a Queer and Pleasant Danger, and Gender Outlaw (the book from which the selection given here is taken). Bornstein eventually underwent sex-change surgery and hormone treatments to become physically female and became a performance artist and influential author of books on gender issues. Bornstein was aware from an early age that his sense of gender identity was not "normal," that is, in agreement with the male and female options-boy/girl, man/woman-that he perceived in the people around him. Kate Bornstein was born Albert Bornstein to parents in North Dakota his father was a Lutheran minister and his mother had been Miss Betty Crocker of 1939. New York: Routledge, 1995.Ībout the Author: Kate Bornstein is a transsexual author, gender theorist, performance artist, and author of numerous books and plays. ![]() Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us. ![]()
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