Kate Bornstein is a transgender author, playwright, performance artist and gender theorist. Transgender (IPA: , from trans (Latin) and gender (English) ) is an overarching term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies that diverge from the normative gender role (woman or man) commonly, but not always, assigned at birth, as well as the role traditionally held by society. ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... Template:Unsourced A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is someone who writes dramatic literature or drama. ... Performance art is art where the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time, constitute the work. ... Gender studies is a theoretical work in the social sciences or humanities that focuses on issues of sex and gender in language and society, and often addresses related issues including racial and ethnic oppression, postcolonial societies, and globalization. ...

Bornstein, born Albert Bornstein on March 15, 1948, underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1986. March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (75th in Leap years). ... Sex reassignment surgery (SRS) includes the surgical procedures by which a persons physical appearance and function of their existing sexual characteristics are changed to that of the other sex. ...

"I know I'm not a man...and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman, either...The trouble is, we're living in a world that insists we be one or the other." — Kate Bornstein in Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us

Bornstein is currently (2006) writing an autobiography. ^[1]

Books

• Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws, 2006, ISBN 1-58322-720-2 (note: titled Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Teen Suicide in the UK)
• Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us 1997, ISBN 0-415-91673-9 (paperback) ISBN 0-415-91672-0 (hardcover)
• My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely 1994, ISBN 0-679-75701-5
• Nearly Roadkill: An Infobahn Erotic Adventure (Novel, co-authored with Caitlin Sullivan), 1996, ISBN 1-85242-418-4

Plays

• The Opposite Sex Is Neither
• Virtually Yours
• Hidden: A Gender
• Strangers in Paradox
• y2kate: gender virus 2000

References

1. ^ Activist Bornstein visits 'Deis - The Hoot

External links

• tootallblondes.com Website of Kate Bornstein and Barbara Carrellas
• An Interview with Kate Bornstein on P.O.V.
• Official website of Hello Cruel World—Kate's latest book (2006)
• Cast Out: Queer Lives in Theater (U. Michigan Press, edited by Robin Bernstein) includes an interview with Kate Bornstein and Barbara Carrellas titled "Queer Theater, Musicals to Masturbation: A Conversation with Too Tall Blondes."