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> [The transgender movement even divides itself up by gender, as many folks stick with their same trans-genders (female-to-male or male-to-female). Additionally, the movement gets strangely subdivided among, for example, male cross-dressers, sissy boys, butch women, femme dykes, drag kings, drag…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bornstein/the-transgender-movement-even-divides-itself-up-by-gender-as-many/)

[Kate Bornstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bornstein/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/800/kate-bornstein-11426_boys_the-transgender-movement-even-divides-it_399614.jpg)

> [Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bornstein/drag-queen-is-a-gender-like-no-other-and-with-practice-i-d-learned-to/)

[Kate Bornstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bornstein/)

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## More by Kate Bornstein

> [My own take on the word "transgender" is that it's an umbrella term for anyone who breaks any rules, laws, guidelines or protocol of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bornstein/my-own-take-on-the-word-transgender-is-that-it-s-an-umbrella-term-for/)

[Kate Bornstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bornstein/)

> [Is it a boy or a girl ?”. There is a great answer to that one going around : “We don’t know ; it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bornstein/is-it-a-boy-or-a-girl-there-is-a-great-answer-to-that-one-going/)

[Kate Bornstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bornstein/)

> [“It doesn't really matter what a person decides to do, or how radically a person plays with gender. What matters, I think, is how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bornstein/it-doesn-t-really-matter-what-a-person-decides-to-do-or-how-radically/)

[Kate Bornstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bornstein/)

> [We grew up creating this whole world view for ourselves because it's not there in the culture. What am I? And I have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bornstein/we-grew-up-creating-this-whole-world-view-for-ourselves-because-it-s/)

[Kate Bornstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bornstein/)

> [Sex is f-king, everything else is gender.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bornstein/sex-is-f-king-everything-else-is-gender/)

[Kate Bornstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bornstein/)

> [The transgender movement even divides itself up by gender, as many folks stick with their same trans-genders (female-to-male or male-to-female). Additionally, the movement gets…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bornstein/the-transgender-movement-even-divides-itself-up-by-gender-as-many/)

[Kate Bornstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bornstein/)

> [“When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their expectations, prejudices, and presumptions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bornstein/when-we-talk-about-my-gender-as-though-it-were-a-performance-we-let/)

[Kate Bornstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bornstein/)

> [“You can have great autonomy in the things you choose to learn and pursue on your own time. When you're learning things that interest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bornstein/you-can-have-great-autonomy-in-the-things-you-choose-to-learn-and/)

[Kate Bornstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bornstein/)

> [Gender is used as a control mechanism that's just wrong. Gender is never anything to struggle with; gender is something to play with. Once…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bornstein/gender-is-used-as-a-control-mechanism-that-s-just-wrong-gender-is/)

[Kate Bornstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bornstein/)

> [“We are entitled to our anger in response to this oppression: our anger is a message to ourselves that we need to get active…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bornstein/we-are-entitled-to-our-anger-in-response-to-this-oppression-our-anger/)

[Kate Bornstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bornstein/)

> [I know and know of more than a few MTF's (male-to-female trannies) who've developed strange cancers. Myself, I've got a nice little case of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bornstein/i-know-and-know-of-more-than-a-few-mtf-s-male-to-female-trannies-who/)

[Kate Bornstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bornstein/)

> [“There are more and more visibly weird and freaky people in the world these days, and it’s high time we stop carrying forward the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bornstein/there-are-more-and-more-visibly-weird-and-freaky-people-in-the-world/)

[Kate Bornstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bornstein/)

> [The current transgender movement is composed of a great number of factions, divided by those old favorites of class, race, age, language, region, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bornstein/the-current-transgender-movement-is-composed-of-a-great-number-of/)

[Kate Bornstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bornstein/)

> […gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bornstein/gender-is-not-sane-it-s-not-sane-to-call-a-rainbow-black-and-white/)

[Kate Bornstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bornstein/)

> [When you're a Scientologist it's like the movie Goodfellas, where the gangsters hang out with only other gangsters. We only hung out with each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-bornstein/when-you-re-a-scientologist-it-s-like-the-movie-goodfellas-where-the/)

[Kate Bornstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-bornstein/)

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