High school Quote 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…

— Kate Bornstein

Is it a boy or a girl ?”. There is a great answer to that one going around : “We don’t know ; it…

— 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…

— 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…

— Kate Bornstein

Sex is f-king, everything else is gender.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Kate Bornstein