Kate Bornstein

American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist

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]

Kate Bornstein

Bornstein was born in New Jersey to a Jewish family.[2]

In 1970 Bornstein joined the Church of Scientology. She left in 1981.[3]

Bornstein does not feel male or female. She was born male. In 1986 she had sex reassignment surgery.[4] She has written books about gender. The most well-known one is Gender Outlaw.

In 2013 a documentary about Bornstein called Kate Bornstein is a Queer & Pleasant Danger was made.

References change

  1. Morgan, Glennisha (22 March 2013). "Kate Bornstein, Transgender Activist And Theorist, Receives Support For Cancer Fundraiser" – via Huff Post.
  2. A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today by Kate Bornstein
  3. "My Scientology excommunication". Salon. 5 May 2012.
  4. A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today by Kate Bornstein