Kate Bornstein is a transgender author, playwright, performance artist and gender theorist.

Bornstein, born Albert Bornstein on March 15, 1948, underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1986.

"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

Books

• Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws, 2006, ISBN 1583227202 (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 0415916739 (paperback) ISBN 0415916720 (hardcover)
• My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely 1994, ISBN 0679757015
• Nearly Roadkill: An Infobahn Erotic Adventure (Novel, co-authored with Caitlin Sullivan), 1996, ISBN 1852424184

Plays

• The Opposite Sex Is Neither
• Virtually Yours
• Hidden: A Gender
• Strangers in Paradox

External links

• tootallblondes.com Website of Kate Bornstein and Barbara Carrellas
• An Interview with Kate Bornstein on P.O.V.

Brown University alumni | Transgender and transsexual writers | Living people