Kate Bornstein

Kate Bornstein is an author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist. Ze is "a non-binary femme-identified trans person". Ze is known for hir work in gender theory.

In August 2012 ze was diagnosed with lung cancer.

In the 2020 American film Two Eyes, Kate plays a nonbinary therapist at a psychiatric center.

Quotes
"Gender is made up of body, mind, and time; mastering all three is a challenge."

"Not all trans people agree with this nonbinary thing. There are some who do and there are some who don’t. I don’t speak for all transsexuals or all transgender people. Certainly I honor anybody who wants to be a man and do the work of becoming a man. I honor anyone who mindfully becomes a woman. That’s cool. But, I really don’t get how there’s only two choices. There’s no two of anything else in the entire universe; why should there only be two genders? I don’t get it."

Books

 * Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us (1994)
 * Nearly Roadkill: An Infobahn Erotic Adventure (1996); co-authored with Caitlin Sullivan
 * My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely (1997)
 * Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws (2006); published as Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Teen Suicide in the UK
 * Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation (2010); co-edited with S. Bear Bergman
 * A Queer and Present Danger: A Memoir (2012)