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 build this world view in the absence of books, radio and television, anything, even conversation, Mom… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
Let's stop 'tolerating' or 'accepting' difference, as if we're so much better for not being different in the first place. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different. — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
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… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
Is it a boy or a girl ?”. There is a great answer to that one going around : “We don’t know ; it… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
“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… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
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… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
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… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
“When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their expectations, prejudices, and presumptions… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
“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… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
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… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
“We are entitled to our anger in response to this oppression: our anger is a message to ourselves that we need to get active… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
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… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
“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… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
