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.

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)