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Never fuck anyone you wouldn't want to be.

Gender Outlaw: On Men

…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.

Instead of saying that all gender is this or all gender is that, let's recognize that the word gende...

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Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation

Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame--I'd make a really cute anima...

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A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today

When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their e...

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Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation

We can't ignore right-wing demagogues who insist that the word of the doctor who proclaims a child's...

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Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation

Being transgender guarantees you will upset someone. People get upset with transgender people who ch...

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Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation

It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privilege...

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Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation

While railing against the manufactured prerequisites of womanhood or manhood, we need to avoid manuf...

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Safe gender is being who and what we want to be when we want to be that, with no threat of censure o...

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Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it.

A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today

Let's stop pretending that we have all the answers, because when it comes to gender, none of us is f...

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Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation

I see fashion as a proclamation or manifestation of identity, so, as long as identities are importan...

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Gender Outlaw: On Men

We change our attitudes, our careers, our relationships. Even our age changes minute by minute. We c...

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My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man

From the moment we take our first breath (and sometimes even before that, what with sonic imaging te...

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My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man

And keep in mind that the you that makes life worthy of living today won’t be the same you that make...

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Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens

It is important to note that the relevant factor to sexual harassment in this story is not gender id...

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Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation

The first question we usually ask new parents is : “Is it a boy or a girl ?”.There is a great answer...

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Gender Outlaw: On Men

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Kate Bornstein

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Born: 1948-03-15

Died: N/A

Katherine Vandam "Kate" Bornstein (born March 15, 1948) is an American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist.More