Kate Bornstein: Difference between revisions

| place_birth=Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA<ref name="Welcome">{{Cite web |title=Welcome! |author= |work=Kate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger |date= |access-date=16 May 2020 |url= http://katebornstein.com/}}</ref>

| pronouns=Any<ref>{{cite tweet|user=katebornstein|number=1149734426890424320|date=July 12, 2019|title=Over 71 years, I’ve at one time or another insisted on every pronoun in the book. Finally settled in to it doesn't matter to me what pronouns people use for me—it tells me more about them than it could ever say about me. So thanks for asking, it’s up to you.}}</ref><ref name="Raymond">{{Cite web |title=Interview: Kate Bornstein on Their Broadway Debut in Straight White Men |last=Raymond |first=Gerard |work=Slant Magazine |date=July 11, 2018 |access-date=May 16, 2020 |url= https://www.slantmagazine.com/interviews/pretty-damn-bowie-kate-bornstein-on-their-broadway-debut-in-straight-white-men/}}</ref>

In August 2012 ze was diagnosed with lung cancer.<ref name="Morgan">{{Cite web |title=Iconic Gender Theorist With Cancer Overwhelmed By Incredible Response To Fundraiser |last=Morgan |first=Glennisha |work=HuffPost |date=March 22, 2013 |access-date=May 16, 2020 |url= https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kate-bornstein-cancer-fundraiser_n_2926015}}</ref>

In the 2020 American film ''Two Eyes'', Kate plays a nonbinary therapist at a psychiatric center.<ref>https://www.outfestnow.com/two-eyes</ref><ref name="Reynolds">{{Cite web |title=Kate Bornstein & Ryan Cassata Swap Pronouns in Exclusive Two Eyes Clip |last=Reynolds |first=Daniel |work=The Advocate |date=27 August 2020 |access-date=27 August 2020 |url= https://www.advocate.com/film/2020/8/27/kate-bornstein-ryan-cassata-swap-pronouns-exclusive-two-eyes-clip}}</ref>

"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 [[transsexual]]s 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."<ref name="Pasulka">{{Cite web |title=“A Queer and Pleasant Danger”: Kate Bornstein, Trans Scientology Survivor |last=Pasulka |first=Nicole |work=Mother Jones |date=5 May 2012 |access-date=18 June 2020 |url= https://www.motherjones.com/media/2012/05/kate-bornstein-gender-outlaw-queer-and-pleasant-danger-interview/}}</ref>